1. BIBLES - English (paper-based and software-based)

PRINTED (ON PAPER) EDITIONS OF THE  BIBLE

• American Standard Version (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1901) - (MBE)
• Contemporary English Version (New York: American Bible Society, 1995)
• English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 2002) [book review and best translations and best KJV substitutes]

• Fenton's New Testament in Modern English, by Ferrar Fenton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1905) - (MBE). Sakae Kubo and Walter Specht (So Many Versions: Twentieth Century English Versions of the Bible, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1975, page 210) comment:

Farrar Fenton was a London businessman who devoted some twenty years of his life to fulfill a pledge of making the Scriptures intelligible "through the use of modern English." This work by an amateur was popular for a time, but "its erroneous and inaccurate renderings have rather damaged its earlier favor" (Price).

• Goodspeed's Bible, by Edgar J. Goodspeed (Old Testament translated by J.M Powis Smith and a group of scholars, the Apocrypha and the New Testament translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed, The Complete Bible: An American Translation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939)

• Holy Bible from the Ancient Eastern Text, by George M. Lamsa (New York: Harper Collins, originally 1933, renewed 1968). For a comments on this version, browse:

• Lamsa Bible -- an evaluation? (question/answer)
• Lamsa Bible -- an evaluation? - additional response (question/answer)

• Lamsa Bible - Is it true that his Aramaic version of the New Testament came "from the hands of the blessed Apostles themselves?" (question/answer)

• The Jerusalem Bible (New York: Doubleday, 1966)

• King James Version, 1611 Edition - (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, no date) - As the cover page states, this is "A word-for-word reprint of the First Edition of the Authorized Version." It includes the Apocrypha and all of the marginal notes contained in the original KJV. [book review] Among other KJV Bibles in the BibleTexts library is the following:

King James Version: Holy Bible with Apocrypha, with Alternate Readings and Renderings (New York: American Bible Society, 1975) - This King James Version (KJV) Bible not only includes the Apocrypha, which was part of the original KVJ, but it also includes a helpful appendix section entitled, "Words Which Have Changed in Meaning." Many of the American Bible Society's King James Version Bibles contain these two appendices. (MBE)

The Translators to the Reader: The Original Preface of the King James Version of 1611 Revisited, by edited by Errol F. Rhodes and Liana Lupas (NY: American Bible Society, 1997). This is a very eye-opening writing, which was actually part of the original 1611 KJV. It explains the purpose, methods, expectations, and limitations of the King James Version. It includes photocopies of each of the original pages plus modern English transcription of those pages, to enable readers today to more easily read this original preface, where letters, spelling, and punctuation were quite different than they are today.

• The Layman's Parallel Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1973) - includes the King James Version, the Modern Language Bible, the Living Bible, and the Revised Standard Version.
• The Living Bible (see the Layman's Parallel Bible)
• The Message: New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs, by Eugene H. Peterson (Navpress, 1993)
• Moulton's Modern Reader's Bible, edited by Richard G. Moulton (New York: Macmillan, 1895,1935) - (MBE)
• The Modern Language Bible (see the Layman's Parallel Bible)
• Moffatt's Bible: A New Translation of the Bible, by James Moffatt (New York: Harper & Row, 1954)
• Nave's Topical Bible, by Orville J. Nave, revised by S. Maxwell Coder (Chicago: Moody Press, 1974) - (MBE - three copies!)
• New American Bible - (World Catholic Press, 1987) [book review and best translations and best KJV substitutes]

• New American Standard Bible (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1977) [book review] - An excellent resource.

Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible: New American Standard Bible, edited by Spiros Zodhiates (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1990) [book review]

• New English Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971)
• New International Version (New York: New York International Bible Society, 1978). [book review]
• New Jerusalem Bible (New York: Doubleday, 1985)
• New King James Version: Scofield Study Bible (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1982; NY: Oxford University Press, 2002) [book review]

• New Revised Standard Version [book review and best translations and best KJV substitutes and best study bibles]

  • New Revised Standard Version: The Harper Collins Study Bible, with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books - (edited by Wayne A. Meeks and the Society of Biblical Literature, New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 1993) - An outstanding resource.
• New Revised Standard Version: The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: An Ecumenical Study Bible (edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Roland E. Murphy, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) - An excellent study Bible.

• Word Study Greek-English New Testament with Complete Concordance (edited by Paul R. McReynolds, Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1998) [book review]

• The Original New Testament, Revised Edition, by Hugh J. Schonfield (Rockport, MA: Element, 1998) - An excellent resource.
• Phillips New Testament: The New Testament in Modern English, Revised Edition, by J.B. Phillips (New York: Macmillan, 1957)
• Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha - (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996) [book review] - This is a revision of the New English Bible. An excellent resource.
• Revised Standard Version (New York: National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, 1952)
• Revised Version (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1881-1885) - (MBE)
• Rotherham's Emphasized Bible, by Joseph Bryant Rotherham (Grand Rapids, MI: now published by Kregel, 1902) [book review] - (MBE) An excellent resource.
• Synopsis of the Four Gospels, Third Edition, edited by Kurt Aland (New York: United Bible Societies, 1979) [book review] - This outstanding resource shows verse-by-verse the correspondence between accounts and teachings in the four gospels.
• Today's English Version - (New York: American Bible Society, 1976 & 1992) [book review and best translations]
• The Twentieth Century New Testament, Revised Edition (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904) - (MBE)
• Weymouth New Testament: The New Testament in Modern Speech, by Richard Francis Weymouth (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1930) - (MBE)

• The Word: The Bible from 26 Translations, edited by Curtis Vaughan (Gulfport, MS: Mathis Publishers, Inc, 1993) - Based upon the KJV, this has verse-by-verse major variations from 25 other translations. - A useful resource.

(MBE) = This indicates that the above-listed English Bibles with a "(MBE)" notation were also in Mary Baker Eddy's personal library. Of these nine Bible versions, the only one that did not have her own hand-written notes or from which she did not quote was Fenton's Bible. (Interestingly, Fenton's Bible was popular in Mrs. Eddy's day but later was found to be not very reliable.) This indicates that, for her own study and edification, she did use the King James Version (1611), the Revised Version (1881, 1885), the American Standard Version (1901), Rotherham's Bible (1868..1902), Weymouth's New Testament (1903), the Twentieth Century New Testament (1998..1904), Nave's Topical Bible (1904), and Moulton's Bible (1895..1907).

Mary Baker Eddy also had copies of and made hand-written notes in John Wycliffe's New Testament translation (1388), William Tyndale's New Testament translation (1525), an English version of the Polyglot Bible (1836), and several other English language editions. She also had a copy of Julia E. Smith's Bible translation (1876), but she wrote no notes in that version. (These four versions are not listed above, because I do not own copies of them.) For detailed information on Mary Baker Eddy's use of the Bible, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/bl-ver.htm.

SOFTWARE EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE

• ABS Reference Bible on CD-ROM (American Bible Society, 1995) - An entire collection of Bible study resources on one CDROM. Contains complete editions of six major English translations, Spanish and German Bibles, ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Latin texts, plus more than a dozen reference works. (The American Bible Society no longer carries this resource.)

• BibleWorks6 (a.k.a., Hermeneutika) (Norfolk, VA: BibleWorks, 2003) - An excellent collection of Bible study resources on one CDROM. It's research tools do not have the breadth and depth of Logos, but several key works are more up-to-date (e.g., UBS4, BHS4) than those found in Logos (e.g., UBS3, BHS3), and it has an outstanding collection of non-English Bible versions. It is also somewhat easier to use than Logos. (Available at 1- 800-742-4257 or at http://www.bibleworks.com.) It is written for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP, but it works with some Mac and Linux computers. It includes:
• 58 Bible translations in 20 languages (English, Albanian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latin, Norwegian, Philippine, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Vietnamese)
• English versions:
• Based on the Textus Receptus: Douay-Rheims (1899), KJV (1611/1769, with codes), New King James Version (1982), Webster Bible (1833), Revised Webster Bible (1998, with Strong's and other codes), Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
• Based on more recent (and more accurate) representations of the original texts: ASV (1901), Bible in Basic English (1949/1964), Darby Bible (1884/1890), NAB (1987), NASB (1977), NASB Revised (1995), NIV (1984), NJB (1985), New Living Translation, RSV (1952), NRSV (1989)
• Spanish:
• Based on the Textus Receptus: Reina-Valera (1909, 1960, 1989, 1995)
• Based on more recent (and more accurate) representations of the original texts: La Biblia de Las Americas (1986, the Spanish edition of the NASB)
• Lexicons, Hebrew and Greek:
• Brown Driver and Briggs's Hebrew and English Lexicon
• Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon
• Louw & Nida's Greek & English Lexicon of the the New Testament
• others
• Original language texts:
• UBS 4, Revised / Nestle-Aland 27th Edition Greek New Testament with morphology
• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Fourth Edition, with Westminster morphology
• Rahlf's Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) with corrected morphology
• Textus Receptus (Stephen's 1550 Greek New Testament)
• Textus Receptus (Scrivener's 1881 reconstruction of the KJV translator's Greek New Testament)
• others
• other reference works, including:

• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - an exhaustive index of biblical cross-references

• Concord: A Study Project - (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1988, 1990, 1998)

This is a software program that contains the complete King James Version (Cambridge edition) Bible, as well as Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and the other published writings of Mary Baker Eddy, plus the Christian Science Hymnal (including the capability of playing each hymn). Though Concord only includes the KJV, its search and storage mechanisms are still the best of any Bible program that I have seen. It gives you the ability to take a text file with Bible references (e.g., "John 8:31,32") listed on the left-hand column, and Concord will easily display and/or print the full text of all the Bible reference or just selected verses. This is very convenient and efficient. Up to seven different Bible search/reference windows can be open at one time. Concord is a tremendous tool for studying the weekly Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson, especially if you subscribe to the disk-based, electronic edition of the Christian Science Quarterly. (The Quarterly, electronic and otherwise, can be purchased at Christian Science Reading Room or can be ordered directly from The Christian Science Publishing Society at 1-800-456-2220.)

• Logos-4 Bible Software 2.1 CD

This software comes on one or more CDROMs, depending on whether you purchase level 1, 2, 3, 4, or additionally available resources.) (CDROM: Logos Research Systems) This is the most expandable Bible research software available today, and it has an unequaled library of scholarly Bible dictionaries and commentaries. Many publishers are publishing their Bible research tools to integrate with the Logos software system. (Available at 1-800-875-6467 or at http://www.logos.com.) Some of the many, many resources available from Logos are the following:

• English versions:
• Based on the Textus Receptus: KJV (1611/1769, with codes), New King James Version (1982),
• Based on more recent (and more accurate) representations of the original texts: ASV (1901), NASB (1977), NASB Revised (1995), NIV (1984), New Living Translation, RSV (1952), NRSV (1989), TEV (1976), and more.
• Spanish:
• Based on more recent (and more accurate) representations of the original texts: Dios Habla Hoy (1994, the Spanish edition of the TEV)
• Bible dictionaries:
• Anchor Bible Dictionary
• Harper's Bible Dictionary (This is the 1985 edition, which is still very good. It has been replaced by the Harper Collins Bible Dictionary, Revised Edition, 1996, which is listed below under "Dictionaries" at http://www.bibletexts.com/bibliogr/08dic.htm)
• New Bible Dictionary
• others
• Bible commentaries:
• Harper's Bible Commentary
• Jerome's Biblical Commentary
• Matthew Henry's Commentary
• others
• Lexicons, Hebrew and Greek:
• Bauer Arndt, Gingrich, and Danker's Greek Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature
• Brown Driver and Briggs's Hebrew and English Lexicon
• Kittel's Abridged One-Volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
• Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon
• Louw & Nida's Greek & English Lexicon of the the New Testament
• Strong's Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries
• Vine's Expository Dictionary
• others
• Original language texts:
• UBS 3, Revised / Nestle-Aland 26th Edition Greek New Testament with morphology,
• Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Third Edition.
• Rahlf's Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) with corrected morphology
• Textus Receptus (Stephen's 1550 Greek New Testament)
• Textus Receptus (Scrivener's 1881 reconstruction of the KJV translator's Greek New Testament)
• others
• Other study tools:
• Logos Deluxe Map Set - plus other biblical maps sets
• New Nave's Topical Bible
• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - an exhaustive index of biblical cross-references

• others

• PC Study Bible (BibleSoft, 1989) - A collection of Bible study resources.

• QuickVerse (Parsons) - A collection of conservative Bible study resources.

• The Word Processor (Bible Research Systems, 1982) - This was one of the earliest (or earliest) DOS-based Bible research tools.

Various Bible versions and their New Testament bases

For a listing of Bible versions that provides a comparison of the reliability of the textual basis for each translation, see

• http://www.bibletexts.com/kjv-tr.htm#a.

For online information on some additional Bibles, see also

• http://thesumners.com/bible/versions/
• http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/bible_grid.htm