Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands ...

Just as translators have been persecuted, language itself has been martyred in the effort to bring the Bible to a wider audience, writes Stuart Kelly Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

The oldest known translation of any part of the Bible into German — strictly, into Old High German — was done between the mid-eighth and the early ninth centuries at Mondsee Abbey, in today’s Upper ...

The Bible covers some 6,000 years of history (4,000 in the Old Testament alone). The Bible is not just a book but it is a compilation of 66 books. The time and events of the Bible point to the chosen ...

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...

Aviya Kushner’s book The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bibleis profoundly personal. Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking, scholarly household in which the Bible—read in ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella The Little Prince has been translated into more than 600 languages and dialects, more than any other nonreligious work in history. Translation of this ...

Bethel and Bible translation have a long history together. In the late 1960s and 1970s, several Bethel professors were part of the New International Version (NIV) translation team: Donald Madvig, ...