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1 day ago · Ahadith projects Isaac as being from narrators who had Jewish scholars in their circle as they translated the Hebrew or Greek versions into Arabic. The idea that Prophet Muhammad would identify Isaac as the sacrificial son is baseless because, historically, no Arab had entertained the idea.
4 days ago · The Vulgate (/ ˈ v ʌ l ɡ eɪ t,-ɡ ə t /; also called Biblia Vulgata (Bible in common tongue), Latin: [ˈbɪbli.a wʊlˈɡaːta]), sometimes referred to as the Latin Vulgate, is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.
5 days ago · Qurʾān, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to conventional Islamic belief, the Qurʾān was revealed by the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad in the West Arabian towns Mecca and Medina beginning in 610 and ending with Muhammad’s death in 632 ce.
Official Position on English Bible Translations? I hope you're all well. I work on the Coptic language, and have been translating into English an Arabic-Bohairic book written by a monk of the Coptic Orthodox Church. For the Arabic biblical citations I'd like to use an English translation of the Bible that would be acceptable to the Church in ...
5 days ago · Funding and people from the UK and Ireland plays a very significant role in the worldwide Bible translation movement. In summary: Over 350 people from the UK and Ireland are serving over 580 million people speaking over 320 languages in over 60 countries. The detailed numbers are:
1 day ago · Rav Sa'adia produced an Arabic translation of the Torah known as Targum Tafsir and offered comments on Rasag's work. There is a debate in scholarship whether Rasag wrote the first Arabic translation of the Torah.
2 days ago · John Wycliffe, English theologian, philosopher, church reformer, and promoter of the first complete translation of the Bible into English. He was one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation. The Lollards, a heretical group, propagated his controversial views.
