OLD & NEW TESTAMENT
The American Standard Version (ASV) came into being due to the
leadership of Phillip Schaff, who assembled a team comprised of 30
American and British scholars. Work on the ASV was completed in
1901. The translation was tasked with the goal of an accurate,
literal, word-for-word translation of the Holy Scriptures.
The ASV took advantage of two 19th century developments to
achieve their goal: improvements in understanding the grammar and
syntax of koine Greek (the language of the New Testament), and a
more complete library of manuscripts than previous Bible
translators had access. As a result of this work the ASV
translation was developed that retained distinctions made in Greek
that are not normally expressed in modern English.
For example, second person personal pronouns in modern English
usage are normally "you" which gives no distinction between the
singular and plural. Koine Greek unambiguously makes the
distinction between a second person personal singular pronoun and
the second person personal plural pronoun. In this case the ASV
retained these distinctions by using archaic English ("you" for the
singular and "ye" for the plural).
The word-for-word translation of the ASV was attractive in the
scholarly environment, and the ASV was adopted as the standard
version used by many American seminaries.
The ASV is the foundation and starting point for several modern
translations. Hence it is a very good reference and even primary
translation to use.
Note: Paperback is 8.5x11 with regular thickness pages for
durability. Also only 263 pages for portability. Small font to keep
the price down, but readable and excellent as a reference.
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