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| | TIME.com: The New English Bible: Back to Beginnings -- Mar. 23, 1970 -- Page 1 |
 | | Yet this week, with the long-heralded publication of the complete New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge University Presses; $9.95), comes a change: "In the beginning of creation, when God made heaven and earth, the earth was without form and void. |
 | | Contrary to popular belief, the King James Bible itself was a revision of the Bishops' Bible and the Great Bible of the 16th century, and those in turn had cribbed liberally from the pioneer English translation of William Tyndale and from the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome. |
 | | Like the N.E.B. New Testament, which was first published in 1961 and has since sold 7,000,000 copies (2,750,000 in the U.S.), the books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha went through laborious stages of development. |
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