Holy Bible (American Standard Version): Old & New Testaments

• Digitized version of the original text published in 1901.
• A neat table of contents for faster page-turning experience
• Fonts have been optimized and tested for display on Kindle and other e-readers
• This is the complete and unabridged edition with both the Old and New Testaments

The American Standard Version (ASV) came into being due to the leadership of eminent church historian Phillip Schaff, who assembled a team comprised of 30 American and British scholars. Work began on the ASV in 1872 and was completed in 1901. The translation committee was tasked with the mission of providing readers with an accurate, literal, word-for-word translation of the Holy Scriptures.

The ASV took advantage of two 19th century developments to achieve their goal: improvements in understanding the grammar and syntax of koine Greek (the language of the New Testament), and a more complete library of manuscripts than previous Bible translators were able to access. The result of this work was a translation that retained distinctions made in Greek that are not normally expressed in modern English language.