The initial “Bible Aids Committee,” as it was first known, included Elder Thomas S. Brother Fyans and his associates began the unified effort to produce one Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Version and to improve study aids in the Triple Combination. Thomas Fyans (who has since become a General Authority), received permission from President Joseph Fielding Smith to recommend what might be done with the standard works. The managing director of the department, J. These and other issues were carefully studied by the former Church Internal Communications Department, which planned and prepared Church curricula. The paper noted the confusion of having a Primary student use one edition of the Bible, asking him to use another style in seminary, and then providing him with a third for his mission.Īnother important factor which focused the attention of the Brethren on the need for a unified Bible and an improved Triple Combination (the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price) was the decision to center the Church’s adult curriculum on the four standard works, using the scriptures themselves as student manuals. Yet all were being used in Church curricula.ĭuring 1971 a research paper by Grant Barton focused the attention of the General Authorities on the need for a unified Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Bible. The text of each was the familiar King James translation, but they were vastly different in their study aids and explanatory materials.
Like the new LDS edition, all these editions were the King James Version. Bookcraft Publishers produced a King James Version that included notes and commentary by Elder Milton R.
At the same time the Primary Association produced its own large-print, inexpensive edition of the King James Bible which contained no study aids. Talmage made arrangements for the Church to use the Cambridge King James Version, with the addition of Elder Talmage’s “Ready References,” between the Old and New Testaments.ĭuring the 1950s and 1960s the Department of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion published editions of the standard works for students. Since the early 1920s the official missionary editions of the Bible had been published by Deseret Book Company through special arrangements with Cambridge University Press. The need for a Latter-day Saint edition of the Bible came from an abundance of Bibles rather than a lack of them. 8.) This work, guided by the General Authorities from its beginnings, represents an important achievement that has resulted in scriptural editions more easily read and understood than any editions yet published in this dispensation. (For descriptions of the LDS edition of the King James Version of the Bible and the revised edition of the Triple Combination, see Ensign, Oct. “By small and simple things are great things brought to pass,” said Alma, “… and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.” ( Alma 37:6–7.)ĭuring the past ten years it has been my privilege to witness the “small and simple things” brought to pass in the publishing of the new Latter-day Saint editions of the scriptures. When the prophet Alma gave his son Helaman the responsibility of maintaining sacred Nephite records, he impressed upon him the great importance of his task.
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