Commissioned by King James I, it is also known as the King James Version. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/) ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters has thrust one translation of Christianity's holy book into the spotlight with ...

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 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 ...

“St. Jerome,” from the workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele. (Erik Cornelius/Sweden Nationalmuseum, via Wikimedia) St. Jerome, whose feast day is Sept. 30, is a giant in the intellectual history of ...

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 ...

For the first time in its more than 200 years, the Catholic Church in Korea is to have its own Korean language translation of the Bible. The new translation, begun in 1989 and completed in late 2002, ...

Last spring, the National Council of Churches commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to lead a review and update of the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible. The new NRSV ...