Jay Patrick Green Sr. (December 1, 1918 – May 20, 2008) was an

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minister, Bible translator, publisher, and businessman. Green was born in Ennis, Kentucky. He earned degrees from

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, Toronto Baptist Seminary, and

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. His motivation to produce an accessible, more easily understood translation of the Bible began when he tried to read the

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to his children and they asked, "Daddy, why don't you make a Bible that we can understand?" His first effort was ''The Children's King James Version, New Testament'' (1960). He went on to produce a large number of translations of the Bible into English, some revised multiple times, including ''The Interlinear Hebrew-Greek-English Bible, in One-Volume''. He once described himself as "the most experienced Bible translator now alive" (Paul 2003:99). He died in

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, Indiana, in 2008.

Partial list of publications

*''Literal Translation of the Holy Bible''. 1985. Sovereign Grace Publishers. *''The Children's 'King James' Bible New Testament''. 1960. Modern Bible Translations, Inc. *''The Teen-Age Version of the Holy Bible''. 1962. McGraw-Hill. *''The Children's Version of the Holy Bible''. 1962. McGraw-Hill. *''The Living Scriptures: A New Translation in the King James Tradition'' (New Testament). 1966. National Foundation for Christian Education: Marshallton, DE. *''King James II Version of the Bible''. 1971. Associated Publishers and Authors: Grand Rapids. *''KJ3 Literal Translation New Testament Word for Word English Translation From The Greek Textus Receptus Text''. 2006. Authors For Christ, Inc. *''Modern King James Version of the Holy Bible''. New York: McGraw-Hill. *''The Living Scriptures: A New Translation in the King James Version Tradition''. National Foundation for Religious Education. *''King James Version—Twentieth Century Edition''. Tyndale Bible Society. *''The Gnostics, the New Versions, and the Deity of Christ'', by Jay P. Green, Sr. and George Whitefield. 2000. Sovereign Grace Publishers. *''A Concise Lexicon to the Biblical Languages''. 1987. Hendrickson Publishing: Peabody, Massachusetts. *''Unholy Hands on the Bible''. 1998. Sovereign Grace Publishing.

References

* Chamberlin, William. 1991. ''Catalogue of English Bible Translations: A Classified Bibliography of Versions and Editions Including Books, Parts, and Old and New Testament Apocrypha''. Greenwood Press. *Paul, William. 2003. "Jay P. Green". ''English Language Bible Translators'', p. 98,99. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company. {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Jay P 1918 births 2008 deaths Translators of the Bible into English People from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Washington University in St. Louis alumni 20th-century translators