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The American Bible Society (ABS) is a group, founded in 1816, that publishes, distributes, and translates the Bible. Image File history File links American_bible_society_logo. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (Ï„Î±) Î²Î¹Î²Î»Î¹Î±, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of Î²Î¹Î²Î»Î¹Î¿Î½, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of Î²Î¹Î²Î»Î¿Ï‚, biblos, which in turn is derived from Î²Ï…Î²Î»Î¿Ï‚â€”byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material...

In 2000-2001, ABS distributed 4,113,106 Bibles and 8,322,112 copies of the New Testament. They are the translators of the Good News Translation and the Contemporary English Version. This article is about the year 2000. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. ... The Good News Translation (GNT) as it is known in North America, or the Good News Bible (GNB) as it is known in the rest of the world, is an English language translation of the Bible by the American Bible Society, first published as the New Testament under the name... The Contemporary English Version or CEV (also known as Bible for Todays Family) is a new translation of the Bible into English, published by the American Bible Society. ...

ABS is headquartered in New York, where it also maintains an extensive archive of editions of the Bible, many of them rare or otherwise unusual.

The most recent President of ABS is Eugene Habecker, who stepped down in mid-2005. Dr. Eugene Habecker is the standing president of Taylor University. ...

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Bible Society work in the USA
ABS Official Website
Losing the American Bible Society - Critical article

Category: ‪Bible‬

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American Bible Society Mission Partners :: American Bible Society (539 words)
	The Bible Society’s Elementz of Life™ inner-city youth materials — 4 the Streets magazine, a Christian hip-hop CD and other resources that draw from youth culture — will help participants minister to their neighbors in home and church Bible studies and in sharing their faith in the “language” of inner-city youth.
	In 2004, the Bible Society gave 100,000 New Testaments to children in Angola, Colombia Ghana, Malawi, Nicaragua, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
	The American Bible Society was instrumental in founding this global fellowship in the interest of greater ministry impact and efficiency.

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bible Societies (1889 words)
	Some efforts were made to provide a systematic dissemination of Bibles as early as the time of Charles I of England, and before the formation of Bible societies on a scale of world-wide activity, there existed a number of organizations which made Bible distribution a feature of their work.
	The Danish Bible Society dates form 1814, the Russian from 1812; a Bible society was founded in Finland in 1812, one in Norway in 1815, and one in the Netherlands 1813, one in Malta in 1817, and one in Paris 1818.
	Furthermore, it can scarcely be denied that the Bible societies, by invading the Catholic countries and endeavouring to foist the Protestant versions upon a Catholic people, have stirred up much discord, and have laid themselves open to the charge of degrading the Sacred Book by using it as an instrument of proselytism.

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