THE NEW INTERNATIONAl. VERSION is a completely new translation of the Holy

Bible made by over a hundred scholars working directly from the best availzble Hebrew.

Aramaic and Greek texts. It had its beginning in 1965 when. after several years of exploratory

sludy by committees from the Christian Reformed Church and the National Association of

Evangelicals, a group of scholars met ~t Palos Heights, Illinois, and concurred in the need

for a new translation of the Bible in contemporary English. This group, though not made

up of pfficial church representatives, was transdenominationah Its conclusion was endorsed

by a large number of leaders from many denominations who met in Chicago in 1966.

Responsibility for the new version was delegated by the Palos Heights group to a self-

governing body of fifteen, the Committee on Bible Translation, composed for the most part