关于圣经译本，我们至少需要了解三个重要话题。
第一个是关于神的名字YHWH。
这个"四字神字"应该怎么处理？
在翻译中，难道我们将这个词保留为希伯来字母？
犹太人在公元前2世纪将圣经翻译成希腊语时，大多使用“Adonai(主)”来取代YHWH。
这影响到二千多年来，大多数英文圣经遵循犹太人的先例，并用“the LORD(主)”代替了 YHWH。
钦定本 (KJV) 只有 7 节保留了这个词，翻译为“Jehovah(耶和华)”。
但还有几个例外，
- 杨氏直译本(Young's Literal Translation, YLT 1862)
- 美国标准(American Standard Version, ASV 1901)，
这些是在 和合本时代之前(1911)。
在 CUV 之后，还有其他以 Yahweh 为名出版的近代英文圣经。
- 1966 年《耶路撒冷圣经》(Jerusalem Bible, JB)，它基于 1956 年的法语“La Bible de Jerusalem”（在 1999 年的法语版中，例如 Gen 2:4，YHWH 被翻译为“Yahvé”。）这本圣经由天主教会印刷。在《耶路撒冷圣经》中，“Yahweh”这个名字出现了 6823 次。耶路撒冷圣经很受欢迎，是天主教徒的标准圣经。它于 1985 年更新为《新耶路撒冷圣经》(New Jerusalem Bible, NJB)。尽管梵蒂冈重申了一项指令，即不得在天主教礼仪或音乐中发音读出上帝的名字，即四字神名 YHWH (不可读作Yahweh)，这是因为引用了犹太人和教会历来的权威。然而，在 2007 年，天主教的公教真理学会 (Catholic Truth Society, CTS) 发布了《新天主教圣经》(New Catholic Bible NCT)，它修订了 1966 年的《耶路撒冷圣经》。在整个旧约中，Yahweh这个名字被替换为“the LORD”。
French “La Bible de Jerusalem” 1999 - Holman Christian Standard Bible 2003, 2009, 在第二版中，在 656 处用Yahweh。正如 HCSB 的介绍中所说：“在HCSB 中的使用"Yahweh"比在大多数圣经翻译中更频繁，因为英文中的"the Lord(主)"这个词是神的头衔，并没有准确地向现代读者传达在原文(希伯来语)圣经中对神名字的强调。”然后在下一次修订中，它更名为Christian Standard Bible (CSB 2017)，神的名称"Yahweh"再次被“the LORD”所取代。
- Lexham English Bible (LEB 2011) 是由 Logos Bible Software 发布的在线圣经。 Logos 是英语学者和平信徒中所用的最强大圣经软件之一。LEB 在 5776 节经文中使用了“Yahweh”这个名字。
这就是我们在网上同时提供 HCSB 和 LEB， 与原文进行比较的原因。
参考：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Bible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Christian_Standard_Bible
There are at least three important issues that we need to understand about our Bible.
The first issue is about the Name of God.
How should this tetragrammaton YHWH be handled?
In translations, could we leave the name of God in the Hebrew alphabet?
The Jews themselves when translating the scripture into Greek in the 2nd century BC, they mostly used "Adonai" to substitute YHWH.
The English Bibles mostly followed the Jewish precedent and substituted "the LORD" for YHWH.
KJV only preserved 7 verses where the word is translated as "Jehovah".
There were a few exceptions,
- the Young's Literal Translation YLT 1862
- The American Standard ASV 1901
These were before the times of the CUV.
After CUV in 1919, there are other English Bibles being published with the name of Yahweh.
- the Jerusalem Bible , JB 1966, which is based on the French "La Bible de Jerusalem" of 1956 (in the French edition 1999, eg Gen 2:4, YHWH was translated as "Yahve".) This Bible is printed by the Catholic Church.
In the Jerusalem Bible, the name "Yahweh" appeared 6823 times. The Jerusalem Bible was well received and was the standard Bible for the Catholics. It was updated as New Jerusalem Bible (NJB1985). Even though the Vatican has reiterated a directive that the name of God revealed in the tetragrammaton YHWH is not to be pronounced in Catholic liturgy or in music, citing the authority of Jewish and Christian practice.
However, in 2007, the Catholic Truth Society released a CTS New Catholic Bible, NVB 2007, which is revising from the Jerusalem Bible in 1966. The name Yahweh is replaced with "the LORD" throughout the Old Testament. - Holman Christian Standard Bible HCSB 2003, 2009, In the second edition Yahweh was found in 656 places. As stated in the introduction of the HCSB: "Yahweh is used more often in the Holman CSB than in most Bible translations because the word LORD in English is a title of God and does not accurately convey to modern readers the emphasis on God's name in the original Hebrew."
Then in the next revision, it is renamed Christian Standard Bible CSB 2017, and the name of God again was replaced by "the LORD" throughout. - The Lexham English Bible (LEB 2011) is an online Bible released by Logos Bible Software. This is one of the most powerful Bible software for English scholars and general users.
LEB uses the name "Yahweh" in 5776 verses.
That is the reason why we are providing both the HCSB and the LEB on our web for comparison.
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Bible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_Christian_Standard_Bible
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