The translators have sought to follow the principles of translation used in the original King James Version, which the NKJV revisers call "complete equivalence" in contrast to " dynamic equivalence" used by many contemporary translations. The New King James Version also uses the Textus Receptus ("Received Text") for the New Testament, just as the original King James Version had used.Īs explained in the preface, notes in the center column acknowledge variations from Novum Testamentum Graece (designated NU after Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies) and the Majority Text (designated M). However, the 1967/1977 Stuttgart edition of the Biblia Hebraica used by the NKJV uses an earlier manuscript (the Leningrad Manuscript B19a) than that of the KJV. Both the Old Testament text of the NKJV and that of the KJV come from the ben Chayyim text. Features Īccording to its preface, the NKJV uses the 1967/1977 Stuttgart edition of the Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament, with frequent comparisons made to the Ben Hayyim edition of the Mikraot Gedolot published by Bomberg in 1524–25, which was used for the King James Version. The project took seven years in total to complete. The text for the New Testament was published in 1979 the Psalms in 1980 and the full Bible in 1982.
Also agreed upon for most New King James Bibles were easier event descriptions, a history of each book, and added dictionary and updated concordance. The 130 translators believed in faithfulness to the original Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew texts including the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The aim of its translators was to update the vocabulary and grammar of the King James Version, while preserving the classic style and literary beauty of the original 1769 edition of the King James Version.
The men who were invited prepared the guidelines for the NKJV. It was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings ( Nashville and Chicago) of 130 biblical scholars, pastors, and theologians. The NKJV translation project was conceived by Arthur Farstad.
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