“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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

IN influence upon the mind and heart of our Western world one book has been supreme. That book is the Bible; and this year there appears the first part of a new translation of it, which will be known ...

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 ...

Benjamin G. Wright III, associate professor of religion studies at Lehigh University, will be co-editor of the first new English translation of the Septuagint Bible in more than 150 years. Wright will ...

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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 ...