New American Standard Bible
Full name:	New American Standard Bible
Abbreviation:	NASB or NAS
Complete Bible published:	1971
Derived from:	American Standard Version
Textual Basis:	21% deviation from Nestle-Aland 27th edition (NT)
Translation type:	7% paraphrase rate
Copyright status:	Lockman Foundation
Online address:	http://lockman.org
Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

The New American Standard Bible (NASB) is an English translation of the Bible. The most recent edition of the NASB text was published in 1995, with the original having been published in 1971. The New Testament alone was previously published in 1963. The rights to the NASB text are owned by the Lockman Foundation. Foto of the New American Standard Bible (1977 Ed. ... The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The Standard American Edition, Revised Version, more commonly known as the American Standard Version (ASV), is a version of the Bible that was released in 1901. ... Novum Testamentum Graece (also Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament) is the Latin name of a Greek language version of the New Testament. ... The Lockman Foundation, started in 1942 by F. Dewey Lockman and his wife Minna Lockman, is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian ministry dedicated to the translation, publication, and distribution of the New American Standard Bible, Amplified Bible, La Biblia de las Américas, Nueva Biblia de los Hispanos, and other Biblical... John 3:16 (chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel of John) is one of the most widely quoted verses from the Christian Bible. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Look up translate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word Bible refers to the canonical collections of sacred writings of Judaism and Christianity. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... John 21:1 Jesus Appears to His Disciples--Alessandro Mantovani: the Vatican, Rome. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... The Lockman Foundation, started in 1942 by F. Dewey Lockman and his wife Minna Lockman, is a nonprofit, interdenominational Christian ministry dedicated to the translation, publication, and distribution of the New American Standard Bible, Amplified Bible, La Biblia de las Américas, Nueva Biblia de los Hispanos, and other Biblical...

The NASB was published in the following stages

• Gospel of John (1960)
• The Gospels (1962)
• New Testament (1963)
• Psalms (1968)
• Complete Bible, Old and New Testaments (1971)
• Modified Editions (1972, 1973, 1975, 1977)
• Updated Edition (1995)

Translation philosophy

The New American Standard Bible is widely regarded as the most literally translated of 20th-century English Bible translations. According to the NASB's preface, the translators had a "Fourfold Aim" in this work: The Bible has been translated into many languages. ...

1. These publications shall be true to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
2. They shall be grammatically correct.
3. They shall be understandable.
4. They shall give the Lord Jesus Christ His proper place, the place which the Word gives Him; therefore, no work will ever be personalized.

As its name implies, the NASB is a revision of the American Standard Version of 1901. This translation was begun as an alternative to the Revised Standard Version (1952 edition), which was perceived as favoring a Jewish perspective citing primarily its adherence to the Jewish reading and translation of the Hebrew word `almah . Sometimes called the Catholic Bible, the RSV, has also has been criticized for containing the deuterocanonical books in keeping with the first officially canonized-Christian Bible. Some also claim that it was perceived as too liberal in its translation style. Thus, using the ASV as its English basis, the NASB's translators went back to established Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts and revised the ASV as literally as possible, deliberately interpreting the Old Testament from a Christian standpoint, in harmony with the New Testament^{[citation needed]}. See. Hebrew redirects here. ... Aramaic is a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ... Almah (עלמה) or plural: alamot (עלמות) is a Hebrew feminine noun, for a girl who has reached puberty but is still under the shielding protection of her family; she is a young, marriageable (i. ... The deuterocanonical books are the books that Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ethiopian Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy include in the Old Testament that were not part of the Jewish Tanakh. ... Look up liberal on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberal may refer to: Politics: Liberalism American liberalism, a political trend in the USA Political progressivism, a political ideology that is for change, often associated with liberal movements Liberty, the condition of being free from control or restrictions Liberal Party, members of...

Main article: Bible version debate

The Hebrew text used for this translation was the third edition of Rudolf Kittel's Biblia Hebraica, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia was consulted for the 1995 revision. For Greek, Eberhard Nestle's Novum Testamentum Graece was used; the 23rd edition in the 1971 original, and the 26th in the 1995 revision. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dynamic and formal equivalence. ...

Seeing the need for a literal, modern translation of the English Bible, the translators sought to produce a contemporary English Bible while maintaining a word-for-word translation style. In cases where word-for-word literalness was determined to be unacceptable for modern readers, changes were made in the direction of more current idioms. In such instances, the more literal renderings were indicated in footnotes. Formal equivalence is a translation approach which attempts to retain the language forms of the original as much as possible in the translation, regardless of whether or not they are the most natural way to express the original meaning. ... An idiom is an expression (i. ...

The greatest perceived strength of the NASB is its reliability and fidelity to the original languages without theological interpretation. Its corresponding weakness is that its readability and literary style sometimes prove confusing to the average reader. In addition, its printing of verses as individual units instead of paragraphs makes the text appear fragmented (though more recent editions are available in paragraph format). The NASB, along with other literal translations, also allows for ambiguities in the text's meaning. Though some perceive this as a weakness in the translation, it is actually a function of the aforementioned lack of theological interpretation.

Updated NASB (1995)

In 1995, the Lockman Foundation reissued the NASB text as the NASB Updated Edition (or more often, the Updated NASB or NASB95). Since then, it has become known simply as the "NASB" and has supplanted the 1971 text in current printings.

In removing or replacing literal renderings of antiquated phrases and words, the current edition is slightly less literal than the original. The NASB remains, however, the most literal version of the English Bible commonly used in churches today. It is commonly used in many Christian colleges and seminaries for in-depth study, because of its strict adherence to the original languages.

Sources

• Marlowe, Michael D. (Oct 2002). "New American Standard Bible". Retrieved March 19, 2005.
• The Lockman Foundation (1995). "Preface to the New American Standard Bible". Retrieved March 19, 2005.
• The Lockman Foundation. "New American Standard Bible". Retrieved April 13, 2006.
• The Lockman Foundation. "Translation Principles". Retrieved April 13, 2006.
• Ryken, Leland (2002). The Word of God in English. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. ISBN 1-58134-464-3

External links

• About the NASB
• A Critical Analysis of the NASB
• A searchable, online version of the NASB at gospelcom.net
• Zondervan NASB Profile