Holman CSB, in its first year, at No. 5 on bookstore charts

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—The Holman Christian Standard Bible, at the first anniversary of its release, has exceeded expectations in the marketplace, said David R. Shepherd, Broadman & Holman senior vice president/publisher and executive editor of the new translation.

Sheppard said from December 2003 to December 2004, the Holman Christian Standard Bible “soared” from No. 11 to No. 5 in the General Versions & Translations’ best-seller chart of national sales data from Christian retail stores.

With approximately 1.5 million full Holman CSB Bibles in print, he described it as “a remarkable achievement.”

The Holman CSB, the first all-new Bible translation from a major publisher in more than 25 years, was commissioned by Broadman & Holman Publishers, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.

An international team of 100 scholars and English stylists representing more than 20 different Protestant denominations worked together from the original biblical languages of Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic to achieve a translation that is both accurate and readable. The Holman CSB New Testament was released in 2001.

In addition to hardcover, the Holman CSB is available in leather, paperback pocket sizes and regular and large-print Ultra Thin references. There also are a number of specialty editions for groups such as military personnel, police officers, firemen and sportsmen as well as the Every Day with Jesus Bible, which organizes the full scriptural text into 365 daily readings. The Every Day with Jesus Bible was created to coincide with the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2005 Year of the Bible initiative, which encourages people to read through the entire Bible in one year.