The Third Millennium Bible (TMB), also known as the New Authorized Version, is a 1998 minor update of the
King James Version
The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English Bible translations, Early Modern English translation of the Christianity, Christian Bible for the Church of England, wh ...
of the
Bible
The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally writt ...
. Unlike the
New King James Version
The New King James Version (NKJV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English, working as a revision of the King James Version. Published by Thomas Nelson, the complete NKJV was released in 1982. With regard to its textual basis, the ...
, it does not alter the language significantly from the 1611 version, retaining
Jacobean grammar (including "thees" and "thous"), but it does attempt to replace some of the vocabulary which no longer would make sense to a modern reader.
Characteristics
Canon
The TMB, like the original KJV in 1611, contains the
Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books of the
Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
in between the Old and
New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...
s, making a total of 80 books. This has helped win it some support among traditionalist
Anglicans
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...
and
Eastern Orthodox
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Christians.
A version without the Apocrypha (and with formatting changes) is known as the
21st Century King James Version.
Bible Gateway website, '' 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)''
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Word updating
Vocabulary updates were based on Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, Unabridged.
References
External links
Third Millennium Bible
- Official Site
KJ21 on BibleGateway.com
- The complete text of the 21st Century King James Version, plus version, copyright and publisher information
TMB with Apocrypha on BibleStudyTools.com
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