American Bible Society

From Textus Receptus

The American Bible Society (ABS) is a group, founded in 1816, that publishes, distributes, and translates the Bible.

In 2000-2001, ABS distributed 4,113,106 Bibles and 8,322,112 copies of the New Testament. They are the translators of the Good News Bible (now officially known as the Good News Translation) and the Contemporary English Version.

ABS is headquartered in New York, where it also maintains an extensive archive of editions of the Bible, many of them rare or otherwise unusual.

The current president of the American Bible Society is Dr. R. Lamar Vest.

History

The American Bible Society celebrated a century of service to China in 1934. Vice President John R. Mott recalled that in 1833 the Society sent $3,000 to Dr. Elijah Coleman Bridgman, first U. S. Protestant missionary to China, to print scriptures in Chinese. As of 1934 the Society had spent $2,897,383 distributing nearly 70,000,000 volumes of Scripture in China.

Housed at its main headquarters in Manhattan, NY, is a museum of ancient and historic bibles dating back as far as the Gutenberg edition, of which, ABS has several pages under protection. The Bible library has editions of scripture in every language, from many counties and regions and spanning nearly six centuries and is the second largest collection of religious books with The Vatican being the largest. ABS often finds and protects found scriptures, sometimes even buying them at auction.

In its Bible repository in South America, there are hundreds of thousands of random versions and editions of Bibles that it has collected over the years.

King James Version

Although no friend of the King James Version of the Bible, they had this to say about the "revisions" of the King James Bible. The American Bible Society wrote;

"The English Bible, as left by the translators (of 1611), has come down to us unaltered in respect to its text..."

They further stated;

"With the exception of typographical errors and changes required by the progress of orthography in the English language, the text of our present Bibles remains unchanged, and without variation from the original copy as left by the translators."

(Committee on Versions to the Board of Managers, American Bible Society, 1852).

External Links

American Bible Society Website

The King James Version 2023 Edition New Testament is now complete and in print format here.

Internal Links

Old Testament - New Testament KJV 1900

New Testament KJV 2016

Scrivener's 1894 Textus Receptus

2016 Urdu New Testament (TR Based)

Russian Synodal Version (TR Based)

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Marginal Notes in the 1611 Authorized Version

Ephesians 3:9

Why We Should Not Passover Easter 1, 2, & 3

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List of TR/KJV based foreign bibles

List of New Testament minuscules

List of New Testament lectionaries

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