History

After several years of preliminary development, Holman Bible Publishers, the oldest Bible publisher in America, assembled an international, interdenominational team of 90 scholars, all of whom were committed to biblical inerrancy. Smaller teams of editors, stylists, and proofreaders then corrected and polished the translation. Outside consultants contributed valuable suggestions from their areas of expertise. An executive team then reviewed the final manuscripts.

Textual Base

The textual base for the New Testament [NT] is the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 27^th edition, and the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, 4^th corrected edition. The text for the Old Testament [OT] is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5^th edition.

Significant differences among Hebrew [Hb] and Aramaic [Aram] manuscripts of the OT or among Greek [Gk] manuscripts of the NT are indicated in footnotes. In a few NT cases large square brackets indicate texts that are omitted in some ancient manuscripts. The HCSB® uses the traditional verse divisions found in most Protestant Bibles in English.