Evangelical Heritage Version

Evangelical Heritage Version
Full nameEvangelical Heritage Version
AbbreviationEHV
LanguageEnglish
OT published2019
NT published2017
Complete Bible
published		2019
Textual basisOT: Various. Includes Masoretic Text, and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.
NT: Various. Includes Textus Receptus and Novum Testamentum Graecae.
See Translation Methodology
Translation typeOptimal equivalence
PublisherNorthwestern Publishing House
Copyright2017
Religious affiliationLutheran
Websitewartburgproject.org
Genesis 1:1–3
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was undeveloped and empty. Darkness covered the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.[1]
John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life."[2]

The Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV) is a translation of the Bible into the English language. The translation project was called The Wartburg Project and the group of translators consisted of pastors, professors, and teachers from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), both based in the United States.

The Bible translation began in 2013 due to the relative lack of a commonly accepted translation, especially among Lutherans, compared to the historical popularity of the King James Version (KJV) and New International Version (NIV), due in part to the replacement of the 1984 version of the NIV by the 2011 version and the aging language used in the KJV.

A New Testament and Psalms version of the EHV was first published in the summer of 2017 and the full version of the EHV Bible was first published in 2019 by Northwestern Publishing House.[3]

A study Bible with extensive notes and other resources is available digitally on the Microsoft Store in American and metric editions and in Logos Bible Software. A hardcover version is published by Northwestern Publishing House.

  1. ^ "EHV lectionaries: Sundays after Pentecost" (PDF). The Wartburg Project. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  2. ^ "John". Holy Bible: Evangelical Heritage Version: New Testament and Psalms. Northwestern Publishing House. 2017. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8100-2743-5.
  3. ^ "NPH to publish Lutheran Bible translation". WELS. Archived from the original on 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-01-19.