A new translation of the Bible has created a tug of words between camps in the evangelical world. Moderates and conservatives are fighting with ultraconservatives over a gender-inclusive New Testament ...

A coalition of Bible agencies warns against overemphasizing speed. Speed and accuracy. In many areas of life, we are challenged to balance speed and accuracy. An equestrian trying to finish a course ...

In the beginning was the Word, the translated word, that is. When the teachings of Jesus were committed to writing, it was not in his native Aramaic, but in post-classical Greek. The Old Testament for ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

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, ...

Bible Translation is big business and if you stop to look at their tax forms, the results might surprise you. Now, this isn’t a theological argument that Bible translation isn’t important, but rather ...

IN 1997 Gary Paul Morson, an American professor of Slavic literature, reflected on the work of Constance Garnett, the translator who introduced Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky to the English-speaking ...

A Bible translation approved for private use by the US Catholic bishops' conference has drawn some objections over the wording of certain verses addressing same-sex relations -- but a Scripture ...

“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 ...

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, ...