A Bible Translation for Everyone?

Released by the American Bible Society in September 1966, Good News for Modern Man—subtitled The New Testament and Psalms in Today's English Version—quickly became a cultural phenomenon and one of the most successful religious publications in American history. For the price of a quarter, the English-speaking public (and eventually the world) could read the Bible in a language that was (in the words of ABS publicity materials) “as fresh and immediate as the morning newspaper.”