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FORMAL DYNAMIC
ASV = American Standard NAB = New American Bible (Catholic) NKJV = New King James Version
CEV = Contemporary English Version NASB = New American Standard Bible NLT = New Living Translation
ESV = English Standard Version NCV/ICB = New Century Version / NRSV = New Revised Standard Version
JB = The Jerusalem Bible (Catholic) International Childrens Bible RSV = Revised Standard
KJV = King James Version NET Bible = New English Translation Tanakh = Jewish Publication Society
LB = The Living Bible NIV = New International Version TSB = The Schocken Bible (Jewish)
NJB = New Jerusalem Bible (Catholic) TNIV = Todays New International Version
Erwin Nestle /
Kurt Aland
Rome/Syria/Asia Minor/Egypt: Major centers where NT manuscripts were copied in great amounts. Asia Minors copies ended up
outlasting all the other locations.
Erasmus: One of the protestant reformers; produced the first scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament.
Tyndale: Also an early protestant reformer; produced the first complete English translation of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew.
KJV: The King James Translation
Erwin Nestle/Kurt Aland: NT scholars who headed an international team to restore the text of the NT from all available manuscripts.
Masoretes: Jewish Scholars who preserved the biblical text with meticulous care from around 500-1000 AD.
Leningrad Codex: The oldest complete Hebrew Bible in one volume; the basis of all English translations today.
LXX = The Septuagint: A Translation of the Hebrew Bible made into Greek around 200-100 BC.
DSS = The Dead Sea Scroll: Biblical manuscripts from a Jewish sect in the desert of Judah from around mid-200 BC70 AD.