LIVING BIBLE, THE Kenneth N. Taylor In 1954, Ken Taylor put his commuting time to good use. On the train between his editing job in Chicago and his suburban home, Taylor began translating the New Testament into modern language for his kids. Most evangelical Christians were using the old King James Version at the time, but the ten Taylor children weren’t connecting well with that Elizabethan language. So Ken started paraphrasing the Scriptures into a breezy style they’d enjoy. It took him seven years to complete the New Testament epistles, which he collected in a manuscript called Living Letters. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find a publisher—so he decided to publish it himself, which he did in 1962. This fresh view of Scripture caught on, especially after Billy Graham began offering it on telecasts. Taylor kept busy, paraphrasing the rest of the New Testament and then producing The Living Bible. This was even more popular, becoming the Bible of the burgeoning Jesus Movement. For a few years in the seventies, this Bible sold better than any book in the world. The publishing house that began in the Taylor garage—Tyndale House-- became a leading company in the Christian market. That company has gone on to publish a host of Christian materials, pioneering in Christian fiction, creating an even newer Bible (The New Living Translation), and breaking into the Bible software business with this product you’re looking at, iLumina.
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