Die Heilige Schrift - Aus dem grundtext übersetzt / German language Darby Bible

Verlag R. Brockhaus 2002 / Hardcover black / Leather imitation, Gilded edges / Elberfelder Bibel, nicht revidiert

• Hardcover 2002
• ISBN: 9783417255348  /  978-3417255348
• ISBN-10: 3417255341
• PAGES: 914
• PUBLISHER: Verlag R. Brockhaus
• LANGUAGE: German / Deutsch
• ASIN: B007GE7BUA

English Description:

The Darby Bible (DBY, formal title The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby) refers to the Bible as translated from Hebrew and Greek by John Nelson Darby.

Darby published a translation of the New Testament in 1867, with revised editions in 1872 and 1884. After his death, some of his students produced an Old Testament translation based on Darby's French and German translations (see below). The complete Darby Bible, including Darby's 3rd edition New Testament and his students' Old Testament, was first published in 1890.

Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface to his English NT, to make a modern translation for the unlearned who have neither access to manuscript texts nor training and knowledge of ancient languages of the Scriptures. He was the principal scholar for a number of translations – and not the sole translator of any one of the various translations that bear his name. He worked with various brethren who had academic and spiritual qualifications. He also acknowledges dependence on the critical work of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles and various other scholars. Darby's translation work was not intended to be read aloud. His work was for study and private use. In his own oral ministry he generally used the English KJV.

When Darby first issued his New Translation into English he wrote in the preface to the Revelation: "if the reader find my translation exceedingly similar to Mr. William Kelly's, I can only rejoice in it, as mine was made a year or two before his came out, and he has never seen mine up to the time of my writing this ..." (Darby went on to write that his New Testament translation had been lying by him for some years then.) In his introduction to the 1871 German version, he wrote, "In the issue of this translation, the purpose is not to offer to the man of letters a learned work, but rather to provide the simple and unlearned reader with as exact a translation as possible."

German Description:

Die Elberfelder Bibel ist eine deutsche Bibelübersetzung, die erstmals 1855 (Neues Testament) bzw. 1871 (Altes Testament) erschien. Sie konnte zwar nie die gleiche Verbreitung wie die Lutherbibel finden, hat aber im Laufe der Zeit wegen ihrer begriffsnahen Übersetzungsweise und Texttreue viele Freunde gewonnen. Die Wörtlichkeit der Übersetzung hat in ihr Vorrang vor sprachlicher Schönheit. Damit wurde sie zum Vorbild für viele weitere Übersetzungen.

Der Name bürgerte sich ein, weil ein großer Teil der Übersetzungsarbeit in Elberfeld (seit 1. August 1929 ein Stadtteil von Wuppertal) stattfand. Initiatoren der Übersetzung waren Julius Anton von Poseck, Carl Brockhaus und John Nelson Darby. Damit stand die Elberfelder Bibel anfangs in enger Verbindung mit der Brüderbewegung und dem Dispensationalismus.

John Nelson Darby (18 November 1800 – 29 April 1882) was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism. Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.