New Japanese New Testament (JPNN65)

Overview

The New Japanese New Testament (vernacular title: 新改訳新約聖書) is the 1965 New Testament edition of the Shinkaiyaku (新改訳, "New Revised Translation"), a major Protestant Japanese Bible translation. The project was initiated in 1961 by the Nihon Seisho Kankokai (日本聖書刊行会, "Japan Bible Publishing Society") in response to calls from Japanese evangelical church leaders for a translation suited to modern believers that would be faithful to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [1] [2] A pilot edition of the Gospel of John was published in 1963, followed by the complete New Testament in 1965. The full Bible (Old and New Testaments) was published in 1970. [2] The Shinkaiyaku aims to balance word-for-word and thought-for-thought translation while favoring accuracy to the source texts, and uses contemporary spoken Japanese rather than formal literary style. [2] It has since become the predominant Bible translation used among Protestant denominations in Japan, selling over one million copies. [2]

Language and People

Japanese (ISO 639-3: jpn) is spoken by approximately 128,000,000 people in Japan. [Glottolog: nucl1643]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Tokyo.

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