Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
by The Library of Congress Cornish speakers can now read the complete Bible – An Beybel Sans – in their chosen language. The New Testament was translated into Cornish by Prof Nicholas Williams and published in 2002. It has taken him about six years to translate all the books of the Old Testament, using [...]
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives Christians who make Bible reading a part of their everyday life prefer word-for-word translations of the original Greek and Hebrew over thought-for-thought translations, according to a new study released by LifeWay Research. In the study using 2,000 Bible readers, people were asked whether they prefer “word-for-word [...]
by The Library of Congress Christians have expressed their concern over calls by a Muslim cleric for the Bible to be banned in Pakistan. Maulana Abdul Rauf Farooqi, leader of the political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, announced at a recent press conference that he had petitioned the Supreme Court to ban the Bible. The [...]
by State Library of New South Wales collection Church leaders from Scotland and South Korea recently paid tribute to the Scottish missionary behind the first ever Korean Bible. They joined together earlier this month for the unveiling of a memorial remembering John Ross, who completed the Koran translation of the Bible a hundred years [...]
Online Bible Research Aids A lot of websites offer online Bible services. Online Bible research aids are among the most useful Bible-related services on the Internet. Online Bible research aids are now more popular in our modern world today. With these aids, many people can easily access verses, quotes, scriptures, different translations and other religious [...]
by The Library of Congress He rode with Indiana Jones and battled next to Frodo, now award-winning actor John Rhys-Davies rides along the corridors of history teaching us what the King James Version Bible battled before reaching the homes of millions of people today. Rhys-Davies, who plays the dwarf Gimli in “The Lord of [...]
by SMU Central University Libraries President and CEO Bruce Smith labelled the expansion “one of the most difficult efforts in Wycliffe Associates history”. “The Gospel cannot be openly preached in these countries. The Scriptures can’t be read in public. Borders are closed, but hearts are open,” he said. Although both regions could not be [...]
Question by macetang: Can anyone please inform me of the ISBN or Publisher who came out with a pocket New American Standard Bible… …either from the late 1980′s or early 1990′s, prior to the “Updated Edition”. I had one at one time with a gray cover that snapped to close. I believe I purchased it [...]
by Smithsonian Institution [WizardRSS: unable to retrieve full-text content] Who was the first woman after Eve’s disgrace to be given the HONOR of being mentioned in Scripture? and the second woman after Eve to be given that HONOR? and the third woman after Eve to be given that HONOR? Of whose family were these women [...]
