FWIW, the news release says “The scriptural text of this new edition is based on the 1909 Reina-Valera Spanish Bible.” I too am very curious to see what it is like, and how it differs from the 1909 Reina Valera. I found out about this forthcoming translation a year ago, after I posted Why Not an LDS Bible in Spanish on Motley Vision. But since the LDS RVR 2009 is a completely new translation, the translators could have substituted the newer/better/alternate words inline in the actual text. In the LDS edition of the KJV, newer/better/alternate meanings of the original Hebrew and Greek are in the footnotes, denoted “IE”, “OR”, “HEB”, “GR”.
Did they keep the 1909 error, as long as it was understandable, or did they re-translate it from the Hebrew/Greek? And if they re-translated it, did they do so in a “clean room environment” so as not to infringe on the RVR 1960? And if they re-translated it, did they allow the King James translation to influence their new Spanish translation? It will be interesting to see how the LDS translators handled the “errors” in the 1909 text. There also exists a Spanish language “Good News” Bible, and a version that seems to correspond to the NIV, called the “NVI”, Nueva Version Internacional. The RVR 1960 has been updated by the RVR 1977 and the RVR 1995. If I remember correctly, I assume there were some passages that were just translated incorrectly in the 1909 edition, because they didn’t match up with either the RVR 1960 or the King James. You can usually find it in dollar stores, either Dollar General or Dollar Tree or Family Dollar, or online at (ABS). The 1909 edition was hard for me to read. I’ll be very curious to see the differences between the LDS edition and the 1909 edition, and the 1960 edition.
So apparently either United Bible Societies or the American Bible Society didn’t want to license the 1960 text to the church. And it was the version preceeding the 1960 edition. The Reina Velara Revision 1909 is the latest version that is in the public domain. The church actually purchases the RVR 1960 from (or from a reseller of) the American Bible Society, for resale from the Distribution Center. The Spanish Bible that the church currently sells is the Reina Valera Revision (RVR) 1960, which is copyrighted by United Bible Societies, of which the American Bible Society is the US representative.
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