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, ...

“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 ...

I remember vividly the day God exposed my spiritual embarrassment – the moment my own "Bible poverty" was laid bare. It wasn’t because I didn’t have a Bible. Being a fifth-generation believer in my ...

With the many differences in Bible translations out there, many look to the best unbiased, most literal and trusted Bible translation in circulation to reground themselves in their faith. Of course ...

After 22 years of work, Robert Alter is the first person to single-handedly produce a translation of the complete Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew and comparative literature scholar will release “The Hebrew ...

I noted a while back that a new English translation of the Bible was published (NT), or in the process of being published (OT and Apocrypha), called the “Common English Bible.” Like many biblical ...

My youth in the very Protestant North Carolina of the 1940s was suffused with Bible translation. One version stood supreme and virtually alone: the King James, or Authorized, version of 1611, whose ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new effort to translate the Bible into every living language kicked off Saturday with the help of a $50 million anonymous gift to the Orlando-based Wycliffe USA, the world’s largest ...

In the biblical book of Genesis, God expels the first two human beings from the Garden of Eden after Eve entices Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. God “curses” Eve for her misdeed, using ominous words ...

With the many differences in Bible translations out there, many look to the best unbiased, most literal and trusted Bible translation in circulation to reground themselves in their faith. Of course ...