Good news bible
The Good News Bible (GNB) is a communicative Bible translation that was last revised in 1997.
Authors and acceptance
The GNB was created in cooperation with the German Bible Society ( Protestant ), the Catholic Bible Works e. V. Stuttgart and the Protestant and Catholic Bible Societies in Austria . The GNB is distributed by Protestant and Catholic biblical works, making it the youngest ecumenical Bible in the German-speaking area. In the Catholic Church, however, it is only intended for private Bible study; the standard translation is used for all other matters . Translators of the first edition NT'68 were, among others, Barbara Beuys (Johannine writings of the New Testament), Norbert Brieger (Lucanian writings) and Johannes Lehmann (Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Mark). The team of theologians consisted of Margarete Steiner , Hellmut Haug and Hans-Ulrich Nübel . The drawings came from Horst Lemke . In the early 1970s, a heavily revised new edition appeared under the title The Good News . The translator team included the following theologians: Klaus D. Fricke , Karl-Heinz Gromberg , Hellmut Haug , Rudolf Kassühlke , Hans Ulrich Nübel , Benedikt Schwank (OSB) and Harald Uhl . Hellmut Haug, Rudolf Kassühlke and Anton Steiner (OP) were responsible for the final editing.
history
The New Testament was published in 1968 under the title Good News for You - NT 68 , based heavily on an American project, and in 1970 the New Testament was translated again independently from the Greek. In 1982 the translation of the Old Testament was completed and the entire Bible appeared under the title Bible in today's German .
During the subsequent complete revision of the full Bible, the text was once again thoroughly revised in order to bring out the nuances of meaning in the original text. The new GNB was published in 1997. During the revision, a higher level of language was generally aimed for, in the poetic texts also poetic language was sought. In 2000, a revised edition was published according to the rules of the 1996 spelling reform . The 2012 edition appeared for the first time with the spelling of the title without hyphens as "Good News Bible", which contradicts the spelling rule for coupling through . In 2018, a revised edition was published in a new typography with a sans serif font.
Late Old Testament writings
In accordance with the ecumenical approach of the Good News Bible , those writings of the Old Testament that are not part of the Hebrew Tanakh , but only survived in the Greek text version, were also translated for them. While these writings are, according to the Catholic view, part of the Holy Scriptures as deutero-canonical scriptures , they are printed in the Luther Bible in an appendix of Apocrypha to the Old Testament, but are not considered Holy Scripture in the actual sense. To avoid the denominational terms “deuterocanonical writings” or “apocrypha”, the term “ late writings of the Old Testament ” was coined in an agreement between the German-speaking Bible Societies and Catholic Bible works , which “has so far remained without contradiction”, but apart from the Good News Bible did not flow into other Bible editions. There are editions of the Good News Bible with and without Late Scriptures. Similar to the Luther Bible, the late writings appear in a separate group, but in a different order than Luther's.
The following overview shows which writings are currently the only ecumenical Bible in the German-speaking area as "late writings" in the appendix to the Old Testament and how the standard translation and the Luther Bible arrange the scriptures in comparison. The late writings are each highlighted in bold. A special feature of the Good News Bible is that the Book of Esther is translated twice: once from the shorter Hebrew version and once from the more extensive Greek version.
| Font group |
Good News Bible 2005
(ecumenical) |
Standard translation 2016
(Catholic) |
Luther Bible 2017
(Protestant) |
| Old Testament: Historical Books | The 1st book of Moses (Genesis) The 2nd book of Moses (Exodus) The 3rd book of Moses (Leviticus) The 4th book of Moses (Numbers) The 5th book of Moses (Deuteronomy) |
The Book of Genesis The Book of Exodus The Book of Leviticus The Book of Numbers The Book of Deuteronomy |
The first book of Moses (Genesis) The second book of Moses (Exodus) The third book of Moses (Leviticus) The fourth book of Moses (Numbers) The fifth book of Moses (Deuteronomy) |
| The book of Joshua The book of the judges The book of Ruth The 1st book of Samuel The 2nd book of Samuel The 1st book of the kings The 2nd book of the kings The 1st book of the chronicles The 2nd book of the chronicles The book of Ezra The book of Nehemiah |
The book of Joshua The book of judges The book of Ruth The first book of Samuel The second book of Samuel The first book of kings The second book of kings The first book of the Chronicle The second book of the Chronicle The book of Ezra The book of Nehemiah |
The book of Joshua |
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| The Book of Esther ( Hebrew Version ) |
The Book of Tobit The Book of Judit The Book of Esther ( Hebrew-Greek mixed text ) The first book of the Maccabees The second book of the Maccabees |
The Book of Esther ( Hebrew Version ) | |
| Old Testament: books in poetic form | The Book of Job (Job, Job) The Psalms The Book of Proverbs The Book of Kohelet (Preacher) The Song of Songs |
The Book of Job The Psalms The Book of Proverbs The Book of Kohelet The Song of Songs The Book of Wisdom The Book of Jesus Sirach |
The Book of Job (Job) The Psalter The Proverbs Solomon (Proverbia) The Preacher Solomon (Kohelet) The Song of Solomon |
| Old Testament: Books of the Prophets | The Prophet Isaiah The Prophet Jeremiah The Lamentations The Prophet Ezechiël (Ezekiël) The Book of Daniel The Prophet Hosea |
The Prophet Isaiah The Prophet Jeremiah The Lamentations The Book of Baruch ( Chapter 6: Letter from Jeremiah ) The Book of Ezekiel The Book of Daniel ( Chapters 13–14: Three Tales about Daniel ) The Book of Hosea The Book of Joël The Book of Amos The Book of Obadja Das Book of Jonah The book of Micah The book of Nahum The book of Habakkuk The book of Zefaniah The book of Haggai The book of Zechariah The book of Malachi |
The Prophet Isaiah The Prophet Jeremiah The Lamentations of Jeremiah The Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel) The Book of Daniel The Prophet Hosea |
| Late Old Testament Writings: Historical Books |
The book of Tobit The book of Judit The book of Esther ( Greek version ) The 1st book of the Maccabees The 2nd book of the Maccabees |
The book of Judit The wisdom of Solomons The book of Tobias (Tobit) The book of Jesus Sirach The book of Baruch ( chap. 6: Letter from Jeremias ) The first book of the Maccabees The second book of the Maccabees Pieces of the book of Esther Pieces of the book of Daniel |
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| Late Old Testament writings: books in poetic form |
The Book of Wisdom The Book of Jesus Sirach |
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| Late Old Testament Writings: Prophetic Books |
The Book of Baruch The Letter of Jeremiah Additions to the Book of Daniel |
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| Late writings, appendix | The Prayer of Manasseh | Manasseh's prayer |
Reading sample
Matthew 18: 23-24 in the good news translation:
“Jesus continued, 'Realize what it means that God has begun to establish His rulership! He acts like the king who wanted to settle accounts with the administrators of his property. Right at the beginning they brought him a man who owed him a million dollar amount. '"
for comparison in the standard translation:
“The kingdom of heaven is therefore like a king who chose to hold his servants accountable. When he started to settle the accounts, someone brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. "
Digital editions
The Good News Bible was published in August 2008 in the bibeldigital Bible software series. A mobile implementation for smartphones has been published for the BibleReader by olive Tree Bible Software . A version compatible with the iPhone and iPad followed in 2011. An audio book version of the New Testament has also been available since April 2008, optionally on 22 audio CDs or in MP3 format. The speakers include Philipp Schepmann , Bodo Primus and Manfred Steffen .
See also
Web links
- Good news Bible: Bible text. In: die-bibel.de.
- Good News Bible: Bible Translation Information. In: die-bibel.de.
- German Bible translations in comparison: Good News Bible. In: die-bibel.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our translations: Good News Bible. German Bible Society, accessed December 1, 2017 .
- ↑ The information in the last two sections is taken from the pages of the Vegelahn Biblical Archive .
- ↑ 2018. What do you get a book for your fiftieth? 50 Years of Good News Bible: Hardly recognizable - and yet completely the same. German Bible Society, accessed on November 25, 2018 : “In addition, the 'Good News Bible' has been given a completely new design. A new design outside and a new layout with new typography inside. In addition, your text has also been completely reviewed. "
- ^ Siegfried Meurer (ed.): The Apocryphal Question in the Ecumenical Horizon . 2nd Edition. German Bible Society, Stuttgart 1993, p. 11 (foreword).