Vietnamese Open Contemporary Bible (VIEVCB)

Overview

Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại (Modern Holy Scriptures) is a Vietnamese full Bible published by Biblica (formerly the International Bible Society), with copyright dates spanning 1982, 1987, 1994, 2005, and 2015. The translation originated as a Vietnamese paraphrase of The Living Bible, produced by a single Vietnamese pastor, and was first published in 1994. [1] The copyright history beginning in 1982 indicates translation work began in the early 1980s. [1] The translation was produced through Living Bibles International, which merged with the International Bible Society in 1992; the combined organization is now Biblica. [2] Later revisions in 2005 and 2015 expanded and updated the work into a full contemporary Bible. Unlike the standard Vietnamese Protestant Bible (Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống), which was translated from Hebrew and Greek by missionaries Grace Hazenberg Cadman and John Drange Olsen in the 1920s, the Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại was originally based on the English Living Bible paraphrase. [1]

Language and People

Vietnamese (ISO 639-3: vie) is spoken by approximately 76,000,000 people in Vietnam. [Glottolog: viet1252]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Biblica.

References