The] quality of a translation in which the message of the original text has been so transported into the receptor language that the response of the receptor is essentially like that of the original receptors." read it, especially 7-11 year olds, and will help deepen their understanding and help to answer the thought provoking questions that arise from exploring and reading the Bible. I recommend the Children’s Rainbow Edition of the Good News Bible as so much time and thought has been put into developing it and tailoring it for 7-11 year olds. It is a Bible that is much needed.' For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. - John 3:16

After the floodwaters receded and Noah could get out of the boat onto dry land, he built an altar and offered a burnt offering to God. In response, God declared this promise to Noah and his family: Whether this was the first appearance of a rainbow in human history (because it had not rained yet as Genesis 2:5 seems to say) or it was just God repurposing the phenomenon that already existed (as KenHam explains), the Bible is very clear about what the rainbow symbolizes. God's Promises Symbolized by the Rainbow Before answering, it helps to know a couple more key terms used when discussing how accurate a Bible is. On the occasion that someone discusses Bible Translation accuracy, they will most likely draw a line in the sand between Bibles which are “word-for-word” and Bibles which are “thought-for-thought”. To bring the ancient scriptures' core message to today's reader. How Accurate is the Good News Bible? Two-colour throughout – helping to break up the text, highlight key information and improve the visual appealIt’s not only the name of the Good News Bible that has changed a lot. The text itself is available in a wide variety of editions and versions. Word-for-word Bibles present as directly as possible the text in the original scriptures. As the scriptures come from a culture far removed from our own, their texts are harder to understand and so any direct translations themselves require of the reader a sharp eye and working knowledge of the context from which the Bible came. A bright, lively new edition of the UK’s bestselling Bible, perfect for helping children to enjoy and engage with the Bible.

The Rainbow Good News Bible is ideal for use with children in primary schools and churches. It contains all the usual features of the Good News Bible as well as full-colour inserts, new introductions, 100 famous Bible stories, and a clear Bible overview. What determines this level is the total number of unique words, as well as sentence length and the length of the words themselves. Other grammatical features also carry weight in the score. The greater the complexity, the higher the score. The reading level doesn’t take into account any understanding of a text's history and context. Only the words and grammar. Also provided is a unique range of NEW features to help young children get the most out of the Bible and to find their way around: The Good News Bible is a translation. Even though it features contemporary language, the text still adheres to being a functional translation of the Bible. But on the scale of Bible translations, it does sit closer to being a paraphrase than many other Bibles. Other Bible Translations After several months of interesting events, God’s judgment was “restrained” and the rain stopped ( Genesis 8:2), resulting in a rainbow that appeared in the sky.

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The perfect choice for a child’s first full-text Bible, the Rainbow Good News Bible is recommended both by primary school teachers for use in class, as well as in church Sunday schools. Along with the classic, much-loved line drawings by Annie Vallotton – including many previously unseen original drawings – the Rainbow GNB retains the 24 beautiful full-colour paintings of children’s favourite Bible stories. When her work came to the attention of Eugene Nida, the two of them arranged to meet. Ten minutes into that first meeting, Nida and Vallotton came to the agreement that she would provide illustrations for Good News For Modern Man . The Good News Bible (GNB) is a friendly and plain-language Bible whose goal was to speak to all people. To do this, it pioneered a new way of translating Biblical scriptures that incorporated the meaning of the text as well as the literal translation. Whilst not always with the exact same name or title, some edition of the Good News Bible has been in print since the 1960s. In fact, the Good News Bible has had four different names since its very first edition. At the very heart of the Good News Bible’s story is one man: Eugene Nida. A prominent linguist as well as a Baptist minister, Eugene Nida was a key figure in the field of Bible translation. He was a founding member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, a linguist at the American Bible Society before rising to the level of Executive Secretary for Translations, and ordained as a Baptist minister in the same year he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics. The achievement that has outlasted all of these, though, is his development of a new way to translate the Bible: Dynamic Equivalence .

Thought-for-thought Bibles operate under a different approach. They use a greater level of textual interpretation throughout their translation process. This includes taking in wider contexts and meanings as a guide to what the original text meant and how that text would appear in today’s language. Annie Vallotton’s signature style of line drawings was a perfect fit for the simple and clean text of the Good News Bible. Both the bible and its illustrations championed the simple and expressive truth of God’s word. The new Rainbow Good News Bible is a lovely edition of the Christian scriptures very well suited to the needs of 7-11 year olds in church, school or family. It’s very child friendly and full of helpful and supportive extras.' Adding to this, the Good News Bible was embraced across a large portion of Christianity and continues to be the Bible of choice for many Churches across the UK. And not only the UK, but across the world. Its elegant line drawings and immediately-graspable text have remained fixed in the hearts of Christians for decades.This new edition of the Rainbow Good News Bible is an excellent resource for schools. Invitational and inclusive, it prompts children to explore the Big Story of the Bible with easy to understand explanations of context and language. It poses key questions linked to the biblical narrative and encourages the reader to engage in active and creative responses, making it an ideal resource to support teaching in Religious Education or for children to use when planning and leading Collective Worship.’ After this, the next change was a revision of the Good News Bible’s text to feature inclusive language. This means that where words in the original scriptures could mean either a specific gender or mixed groups of people, the translation would choose the side of wider relatability. Words like ‘people’ and ‘man’ can both be translations of the Greek word anthropoi( this is where we get words like Anthropology - the study of people). When faced with anthropoi, the Good News Bible would choose to say ‘ people’ whenever possible.