Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Bible In Basic English (also known as BBE) is a translation of the Bible into Basic English. The BBE was translated by Professor S.H. Hooke using the standard 850 Basic English words. 100 words that were helpful to understand poetry were added along with 50 "Bible" words. The New Testament was released in 1941 and the Old Testament was released in 1949. Source The Bible in Translation by Bruce Metzger: ISBN 0801022827 'External Links Information on the BBE Text of the BBE This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.