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24 July 2022
The Good News Bible is a translation, or some would say paraphrase, of the Bible into English. It is produced by the American Bible Society, beginning in the 1960's and going through various editions since. It has achieved pretty widespread use in Protestantism, and owes a great deal to the translation approach of linguist Eugene Nida, but is sometimes assailed as overly loose.
I do not have an in-depth knowledge of it, but a peek at Isaiah 7's Immanuel prophecy shows that it is sensitive there to the findings of modern scholarship, and does not perform the Christological manipulations there that are common in religiously conservative Bible translations.
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