“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 ...

Early monasteries permitted monks to translate portions of the Bible into their own languages for personal devotion. But when scholars outside the monasteries began translating the Bible into English, ...

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, ...

For a baby boomer named Rick, the cover of Good News for Modern Man evoked a flood of wonderful memories. Responding to an online survey that I conducted on the impact of this version of the Bible, ...

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 ...

Commissioned by King James I, it is also known as the King James Version. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/) 10th June 1953: The first issue of the first edition of the 'Authorised ...

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 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 ...