Rupert Murdoch's company News Corp owns exclusive publishing rights in North America for the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible.

submitted by magnora7 from self.corruption

Biblica owns the copyright for the NIV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblica

But they don't print it themselves. They've licensed it to only two companies for printing and selling. One is Zondervan, who has exclusive commercial rights to publish the NIV in North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zondervan

This means only they can print and sell the NIV, and no one else, in all of North America.

Zondervan is owned by News Corp, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Zondervan got the NIV rights in 1973. In 1988 they were bought by HarperCollins, a division of News Corp.

So since 1988, every purchased copy of the NIV Bible in North America profits Rupert Murdoch.

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[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks to useless_aether for teaching me this today: https://saidit.net/s/conspiracy/comments/57c/til_kelly_blue_book_has_been_purchased_by/fa3

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

dont forget the edible trabant! :-)

[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not really a bible scholar, but isn't this one a highly disputed translation?

Anyway, it's been 1945 and these badboys were discovered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library

AND

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exegesis_of_Philip_K._Dick

together are a better summation of Jesus's story and his teachings, not corrupted by the church, roman empire or money making evangelists and in a modern jacket.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's disputed by some, but it's the primary bible of Evangelicals, but they only make up a moderate to small percentage of Christians. https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/72807.jpg?h=407&w=530

[–]allie 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Personally I prefer William Tyndale's version. Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts. For which he was burned alive. The New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's and the Old Testament 76%.

Unfortunately David Daniell got the copyright for it by just modernizing the spelling and font. Which doesn't seem right.