Advice On Buying A Bible

SteveC
Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:29:25 +0000

ellemenope wrote:

Speaking of questions for experts…where (or what) is New Jerusalem?

Bible publishers haven’t adopted the versioning convention used by software publishers, so when the King James Version was updated, it wasn’t called KJV 2.0, but rather the New King James Version. Similarly, when the Jerusalem Bible was updated, it became the New Jerusalem.

“Dot” versioning might not be a bad idea, though, since the New American Standard Bible was updated not too long ago. For a while, it was referred to as either the Updated NASB Edition, the Updated NASB, or NASB95 (like Windows 95?). Now that it’s the common edition, it’s just NASB and the prior version is NASB77 or some such.

There are entire books about Bible versions/translations.