Tag: Translation

The editors have incorporated in this new edition of the Holy Bible the better translations which modern Bible scholarship has put at their disposal. The Old Testament, in prose paragraph format, is the venerable Douay Version, with the exception of the first eight books (Genesis to Ruth), translate...

This version, in two volumes, was translated by Charles Foster Kent, with the collaboration of four other persons. The aim, through the selection of certain parts of the Bible which have seemed to the editors especially well suited, is to kindle the interest of the busy modern reader in the Bible as...

This version was translated from the Greek text of Westcott and Hort by George Swann, a Christian Church pastor in Kentucky. He had used the Greek New Testament for nearly forty years, often consulting it in sermon preparation. He tried to make the translation as true to the Greek as possible. He wa...

The translator of the Gospels, James A. Kleist, SJ, felt that the Bible should use a diction that keeps pace with modern developments in the English language. This edition was translated directly from the Greek, using the text of Joseph M. Bover, in his Novi Testamenti Biblia Graeca et Latina (Madr...

There are four purposes for this translation: To restore the Name of the Almighty to its rightful place in the text;To be recognizably Messianic in that it affirms the Hebraic roots of the Messianic belief;To restore the meaning to so many words which have become popular to use, but do not accurate...

This is the work of Dr. William F. Beck, whose cause was to simplify the English Bible for people of all ages. There are almost 5,000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament all over the earth, plus many thousands of the Latin, Syraic, and other translations. Dr. Beck felt that God wants us to have ...

It is a translation from the original Greek designed to make the language of the New Testament more interesting and intelligible. The translator was Olaf M. Norlie, a professor having three doctorates and on the staff of a college in Minnesota. Particular attention was given to make this translation...

This translation was made by Clarence Jordan. It is not only a translation into modern American English but into American ideas. It cuts across the time space barrier, and the scene shifts from a first century Greco-Roman world to twentieth century America where Paul is no longer an aristocratic Pha...

In an increasingly interconnected world, language is a defining barrier that can hinder communication and collaboration. Translation services have emerged as invaluable tools for breaking down these barriers, facilitating global communication, and fostering cross-cultural understanding. In this post...

This version, translated by Helen Barrett Montgomery, was published to signalize the completion of the first hundred years of work of the American Baptist Publication Society. Two of the seven aims of the translator were to offer a translation in the language of everyday life and to make a translati...

By diligent study, thorough academic preparation, self-discipline, and heart cultivation, Dr. Hugo McCord has become one of the leading and ripest scholars in the United States. He was an author, lecturer, preacher, and professor. He was a local preacher in nine cities across the United States. His ...

It is an abridgment of the King James Version, edited by Roy B. Chamberlin and Herman Feldman with the counsel of an advisory board of Biblical scholars. Some reasons why the resolve of many people to know the Bible has so often come to naught are as follows: its overwhelming length, its somber form...