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Bible translation is currently happening in 3,283 languages in 167 countries. This work impacts 1.15 billion people, or about 15.5 percent of all language users, who have (or will soon have) new access to at least some portions of Scripture in their first language. Differences in Bible translations
The first translation of the Scriptures in the Christian era was into Syriac around 170 AD, as spoken in Damascus! Bible translation activity then spread out from Syria over the following centuries into Armenia, Georgia, Samarkand and beyond. The Septuagint was almost always the source text for the Old Testament at this stage.
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Jan 6, 2019 · When reading the Bible, it helps to understand how the Bible is translated as well as the history of biblical translations. With this knowledge, you’ll understand the importance of the various translations and better comprehend God’s word that was passed to us through ancient written language.
In the process of translating the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English, Tyndale coined several new English words—transforming older English words or in some cases inventing unique and striking new English words—that have since become central terms in religious discourse.
The earliest translation of the Hebrew Bible is the Old Greek (OG), the translation made in Alexandria, Egypt, for the use of the Greek-speaking Jewish community there. At first, just the Torah was translated, in the third century B.C.E.; the rest of the biblical books were translated later.
translation of the Bible is unsurpassed by any other translation tradition. As written text, the Holy Scriptures have been translated into more than two thousand five hundred languages representing all language families in all parts of the world during the past two and a half millennia. Throughout the past two centuries, the Bible Society ...
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and many other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of ...
