Which English Bible Translations Include Apocrypha?

[Michaelrh1325]

Non-Catholic, of course.

I know that certain KJV's do. Also the RSV, NRSV, and ESV have versions with Apocrypha.

What about the NASB and such? Any versions with Apocrypha?

 

[Thomas Kelly guessed]

Michaelrh1325,

Non-Catholic, of course.

I know that certain KJV's do. Also the RSV, NRSV, and ESV have versions with Apocrypha.

What about the NASB and such? Any versions with Apocrypha?

English Translation of the Greek Septuagint Bible
The Translation of the Greek Old Testament Scriptures, Including the Apocrypha.

Compiled from the Translation by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton 1851

http://www.ecmarsh.com/lxx

GNB

http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/search-the-bible

CEB

http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Common-English-Bible-CEB

 

[Unix]

NT 1991 OT 1995 Apocrypha 1999 Contemporary English Version Easy-to-read, avoids theological language.
1995 God's Word (Lutheran)
1970 New English Bible
The Orthodox Study Bible Resembles the NKJV (NT is NKJV).
1989 Revised English Bible Also available in Accordance Bible software and e-Sword and TheWord. I've suggested to Logos that they release it, go to my profile for instructions how to suggest this to Logos!
Third Millenium Bible a.k.a. New Authorized Version.
UPDV 2.16 has 1 Mc and parts of Sirach. Update of the 1901 ASV except for 1 Mc and Sirach.
World English Bible Update of the 1901 except for the Apocrypha.

 

[Knee V]

The Orthodox Study Bible Resembles the NKJV (NT is NKJV).

The OSB's Old Testament actually uses the NKJV as a starting point and then amends it as necessary to bring it into conformity with the LXX. Hence the similarity.

 

[BeforeTheFoundation]

English Translation of the Greek Septuagint Bible
The Translation of the Greek Old Testament Scriptures, Including the Apocrypha.

While there is absolutely nothing wrong with reading the Septuagint (and in fact it is necessary for basic scholarship of the Old Testament) it should be noted in case the OP is unaware, the Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. You are looking for the Apochrypha, which was (primarily) written in Greek, but for the rest of the books (Genesis, Exodus, etc.) if you read a translation of the Septuagint, you are reading a translation of a translation.

Again, nothing wrong with that in the slightest, some traditions even prefer the Septuagint, but it is something to be aware of.

 

[ebia]

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[OzSpen]

Non-Catholic, of course.

I know that certain KJV's do. Also the RSV, NRSV, and ESV have versions with Apocrypha.

What about the NASB and such? Any versions with Apocrypha?

Here's an online list of Bibles with the Apocrypha.

Oz

 

[SummaScriptura]

Here is a comparative chart I created of the English versions of the Apocrypha. You may have to tweek your browser settings to make it legible, or download it. The percentiles at the bottom are a kind of rating system. The closer to 100% the better. Those that exceed 100% are better still as they provide alternate texts with a standard one.

One needs to evaluate the relative value of the various English versions of the Apocrypha on a book-by-book basis like this, because, to put it mildly, since the time of Jerome, in the West, the books which came to be called "Apocrypha" have suffered in the hands of their handlers.

 

[ViaCrucis]

It's my understanding that some of the Deuterocanonicals were in fact written in Hebrew, or at least Aramaic (thus in the same linguistic category as Esther or sections of Daniel). Ben Sirach (as an example), I believe, has a Hebrew or Aramaic original, at least as far as I remember.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[ebia]

It's my understanding that some of the Deuterocanonicals were in fact written in Hebrew, or at least Aramaic (thus in the same linguistic category as Esther or sections of Daniel). Ben Sirach (as an example), I believe, has a Hebrew or Aramaic original, at least as far as I remember.

-CryptoLutheran

Possibly Tobit.

 

[SummaScriptura]

Non-Catholic, of course.

I know that certain KJV's do. Also the RSV, NRSV, and ESV have versions with Apocrypha.

What about the NASB and such? Any versions with Apocrypha?

A genealogy of the Apocrypha I made from the KJV forward:

* ERV stands for (English) Revised Version.
Released in England as the "Revised Version",
it was later revised in America and released as the ASV.

 

[Victor George]

As far as I know for translations:

King James Version
Revised Standard Version
New Revised Standard Version
English Standard Version
Good News Translation
Contemporary English Version
Orthodox Study Bible
Third Millennium Bible
New Living Translation (Catholic Edition)
The Living Bible (Catholic Edition)
English Revised Version
New English Bible
Revised English Bible
The Message (Catholic Edition)
New American Bible
New Jerusalem Bible
Douay-Rheims Version
World English Bible
Common English Bible
Brenton's Translation of the Septuagint
1560 Geneva Bible

 

[Knee V]

If you had waited just a few more hours to post this, it would have been an even seven years!