the living bible paraphrased large print edition

Special thanks to Tyndale House Publishers for permission to use the New Living Translation of the Bible.

In the end, the NLT is the result of precise scholarship conveyed in living language. More than 90 Bible scholars, along with a group of accomplished English stylists, worked toward that goal. The result is a translation that is both exegetically accurate and idiomatically powerful. Their goal was to be both faithful to the ancient texts and eminently readable. The translators first struggled with the meaning of the words and phrases in the ancient context then they rendered the message into clear, natural English. There is a section of pages that have pulled.

Most of the inside pages are clean and without markings. Shows signs of wear consistent with age and use- outside edges show soilage, thin paper has folds and creases, writing on title page. They clarified difficult metaphors and terms to aid in the reader's understanding. This large print paperback Tyndale Bible measures about 6.25 x 9 x 2.25 inches and weighs about 3 lbs. On the other hand, the NLT translators rendered the message more dynamically when the literal rendering was hard to understand, was misleading, or yielded archaic or foreign wording. Many words and phrases were rendered literally and consistently into English, preserving essential literary and rhetorical devices, ancient metaphors, and word choices that give structure to the text and provide echoes of meaning from one passage to the next. On the one hand, they translated as simply and literally as possible when that approach yielded an accurate, clear, and natural English text. As they did so, they kept the concerns of both formal-equivalence and dynamic-equivalence in mind. The translators of the New Living Translation set out to render the message of the original texts of Scripture into clear, contemporary English.

The living bible paraphrased large print edition