[PW] Re: Bible Belt Bible

[Donna Halper]

At 01:41 AM 11/8/2006, you wrote:
>I was asked yesterday what Bible is used by the Evangelicals in the US
>today.  The patron then added, as a synonym, the Bible Belt.  I'm not sure
>the two terms are synonymous; I don't know if there is one particular
>translation that all evangelicals prefer. I can't think of any source to
>which I have access that will begin to answer this question, so I am passing
>it on to you.

Many people in the so-called Bible Belt, or the part of the United 
States known as the "deep south", are Evangelical Baptists, or 
Assembly of God, or other fundamentalist Protestant denominations.  I 
assume they use whatever translation of the New Testament is popular 
amongst Southern Baptists these days-- perhaps one published by 
Zondervan or another respected Christian publishing house.  I am sure 
some of the listmembers who are Protestant can tell us more-- up 
north, the Revised Standard Version of the NT is very common, but I 
don't think that's the most popular version in the south.