New International Version (NIV): The New International Version (NIV) is a translation made by more than
one hundred scholars working from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic,
and Greek texts. It was conceived in 1965 when, after several years of
study by committees from the Christian Reformed Church and the National
Association of Evangelicals, a trans-denominational and international
group of scholars met at Palos Heights, Illinois, and agreed on the
need for a new translation in contemporary English.