Bible Question: Is The amplified bible is a takeoff of the ASB or NASB? Did the Amplified come from Wescott and Hort? Isnt Wescott and Hort full of errors? Didnt the main translator of the NASB refute the version based on the fact that the Wescott and Hort text was used? |
Bible Answer: The Amplified Bible is the fruition of the life work of Frances Siewert who died in 1967 at the ripe old age of 86. This woman had a keen interest in the Scriptures and devoted her life to the study of Biblical languages, customs, archeology of the Holy Land and so forth. I am not aware that the Amplfied is a knock-off of ASV, NASB, or any other version. Having just now re-read the introduction to this translation, I get the real sense that she tended to be eclectic in her sources. Anyone with but a nodding aquaintance with the Amplified could likely be persuaded that Frances in all probability owned a well-worn Roget's. The Lockman Foundation set up an editorial board to carefully review Mrs. Siewert's work and, in a joint effort with Zondervan Publishing House, issued the Amplified New Testament in 1958, the one-volume Amplified Bible in 1965. I find the Amplified useful in aiding in the clarification of a troublesome locution here and there, but I find it ponderous to read large portions of it at one sitting. It hardly lends itself to public reading. In summation, it can be fairly noted that this work is, in the main, the work of one person, albeit with a little help from her friends. There are those, I among them, who feel uncomfortable with any translation so conceived and executed. Sorry I couldn't speak more to your point, but I hope this helps a little. |