<P> It has been suggested that this "thought - for - thought" methodology, while making the translation easier to understand, is less accurate than a literal (formal equivalence) method, and thus the New Living Translation may not be suitable for those wishing to undertake detailed study of the Bible . </P> <P> The Old Testament translation was based on the Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) and was further compared to other sources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Greek manuscripts, Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate . The New Testament translation was based on the two standard editions of the Greek New Testament (the UBS 4th revised edition and the Nestle - Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition). </P> <P> Work on this revision began in 1989 with ninety translators and published in July 1996; 25 years after the publication of The Living Bible . Advanced reader copies of the book of Romans were originally printed as the New Living Version, but eventually renamed the New Living Translation to avoid confusion between this new work and The Living Bible . NLV is still used to identify the New Living Translation in ONIX for Books . Soon after that, a new revision was begun and The Second Edition of the NLT (also called the NLTse) was released in 2004 . A revision in 2007 comprised mostly minor textual or footnote changes . Other revisions were released in 2013 and 2015 with minor changes throughout . </P> <P> In 2016, Tyndale House Publishers, Conference of Catholic Bishops of India Commission for Bible, ATC Publishers Bengaluru, and twelve Biblical scholars collaborated to prepare a New Living Translation Catholic Edition . </P>

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