Top Five Sellers at Abbott ePublishing, April & May, 2012

It's been a great Spring at Abbott ePublishing! 

Check out these Top Five Sellers at Abbott ePublishing for the months of April and May, 2012:

1. Forty Ways to Make a Fortune with MicroBusinesses
2. Unsent Memos: Short Letters to Myself
3. Secret Religions & Obscure Faiths
4. The AeP Tyndale21 Version of the Gospels
5. Short Journeys: Flash Fiction by Stephen Abbott

These and MORE great eBooks for LESS at Abbott ePublishing!

A selection from the Abbott ePublishing Tyndale21 Version of the Gospels (John 15:12-17)

"This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you. No man has greater love than this: that a man give his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.From now on I will not call you servants, because the servant does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from my Father I have opened to you. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, so you would go and produce fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so whatever you ask from the Father in my name, he would give it you. These things I command you, that you love one another."

John 15:12-17 from the Abbott ePublishing Tyndale21 Version of the Gospels (more here)

The Beatitudes in the Abbott ePublishing Tyndale21 Version of the Gospels

The Abbott ePublishing Tyndale 21 Version of the Gospels is a revision of the 1536 translation of the New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) done by William Tyndale, who was a pioneer in the translation of the Christian scriptures into the English language.

Much of his turns of phrases and word creations (like the word "beautiful") have come into our language as a result of his translation - an effort that cost him his life, by burning at the stake, in 1536, because he dared to put the scriptures into the hands of the people, and in their own language.

Below is a well-known and popular section of the Gospel of Matthew, the Beatitudes. Tyndale, using the original Greek manuscripts known to him at the time, and previous English attempts at translation such as the Wycliffe version of the 1400s, puts his own stamp on this beautiful scene.

Much of what he wrote was used word-for-word by the compilers of the King James Version in 1611, 80 years later:

When he saw the people, he went up onto a hill. And when he was seated, his disciples came to him.

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are those who mourn, because they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, because they will inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

Blessed are the maintainers of peace, because they will be called the children of God.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you, when men insult you, and pursue you, and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, and this is the way they persecuted the prophets before your time.

(Matthew 5:1-12 in the Abbott ePublishing Tyndale21 Version of the New Testament Gospels. Available exclusively at Abbott ePublishing Click for details.)