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Appendix D.
Selected List of English Bible Versions

As can be seen by the listing below, Donald A. Carson is certainly correct when he writes that "The halcyon days when everyone was brought up on one version, memorizing it and absorbing it as part of the cultural heritage, are gone and will not return." He adds that for all practical purposes only eight or ten versions are likely to be viable in the market-place. He suggests that 90 percent of America's Bible purchasers will primarily use one of three or four versions. ("New Bible Translations: An Assessment," in The Bible in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Howard Clark Kee, American Bible Society, 1993. Also The Academic American Encyclopedia, online edition, Grolier Electronic Publishing, Danbury, CT, 1993.)