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Recovery Version

The Recovery Version is a modern English translation of the Bible from the original languages, published by Living Stream Ministry, ministry of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee. It is the commonly used translation of Local Churches (affiliation).

The New Testament was published in 1985 with study aids, and was revised in 1991.[1] Text-only editions of the New Testament and of the complete Bible became available in 1993 and 1999, respectively.[2] The full study Bible was published in 2003. The name was chosen to reflect the restorationist theology of the authors, who believe many of the doctrines in their translation (such as justification by faith alone) were lost by the church before being recovered later.[3]

Translation

The Recovery Version is a recent translation of the Bible from the revised 1980 edition of the Hebrew Scriptures, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia,[4] and the Nestle-Åland Greek text as found in Novum Testamentum Graece (26th edition).[5] The translators believe that the understanding of the Bible has progressed in the past two thousand years, in part due to "philological and exegetical scholarship that makes more precise the meaning of the biblical words or phrases or practices" and in part due to an accumulation of Christian experience.[6] This understanding forms the basis of this translation, with guidance from major authoritative English versions.

The Recovery Version claims to avoid biases and inaccurate judgments and to express the message of the Bible in English as accurately as possible. As such, it departs from traditional renderings in certain passages.[7] Its translation is essentially literal/word-for-word/formal equivalent, seeking to preserve the wording of the original Hebrew or Greek text and the personal style of each biblical writer. Its translation is intended as transparent; interpretive ambiguities present in the original text are left unresolved in this translation for the readers to consider. The Recovery Version renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah throughout the Old Testament.

Study aids

Textual comparison

Other languages

There are complete and partial editions of the Holy Bible Recovery Version in other languages, including Chinese (恢復本),[15] French (Version Recouvrement),[16] German (Wiedererlangungs-Übersetzung), Indonesian (Alkitab Versi Pemulihan), Japanese (回復訳),[17] Korean (회복역),[18] Portuguese (Versão Restauração),[19] Russian (Восстановительный перевод),[20] Spanish (Versión Recobro), Tagalog (Salin sa Pagbabawi), and Cebuano (Hubad Pahiuli).

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The Greek word translated "in" in the KJV, ESV, and NIV and "into" in the Recovery Version is "εἰς," meaning "into." Also see Nestle, Erwin. Novum Testamentum Graece Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006. Print.

References

  1. ^ The New Testament Recovery Version. Living Stream Ministry. p. 2. ISBN 9781575939070.
  2. ^ Chamberlin, William J. Catalogue of English Bible Translations: A Classified Bibliography of Versions and Editions Including Books, Parts, and Old and New Testament Apocrypha and Apocryphal Books. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991. Print.
  3. ^ "The Holy Bible Recovery Version". recoveryversion.bible.
  4. ^ Würthwein, Ernst. The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995.
  5. ^ "Translating the Bible".
  6. ^ Harrelson, Walter. "Recent Discoveries and Bible Translation." Religious Education 85.2 (1990): 190.
  7. ^ Paul, William (May 2009). English Language Bible Translators. McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 978-0786442430.
  8. ^ Lee, Jonathan H. X. (November 2015). Chinese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. ABC-CLIO. p. 321. ISBN 978-1610695497.
  9. ^ Crim, Keith R. "Translating the Bible: An Unending Task". Religious Education 85.2 (1990): 202
  10. ^ Harrelson, Walter. "Recent Discoveries and Bible Translation". Religious Education 85.2 (1990): 186-187.
  11. ^ a b Holy Bible Recovery Version. Ed. Witness Lee and editorial section of Living Stream Ministry. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 2003. Print.
  12. ^ Murray, Andrew. The Spirit of Christ. New York: A. D. F. Randolph & Co., 1888. Print.
  13. ^ "Middle English Compendium". quod.lib.umich.edu.
  14. ^ Vincent, Marvin R. Word Studies in the New Testament. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Print.
  15. ^ "網上聖經─聖經恢復本─首頁".
  16. ^ "Éditions CDV".
  17. ^ "オンライン聖書 回復訳：ギリシャ語原文に忠実な､解説・検索機能付き新約聖書". recoveryversion.jp.
  18. ^ "한국복음서원::회복역". rv.or.kr.
  19. ^ "Novo Testamento Versão Restauração".
  20. ^ "Новый завет". Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2013.

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