Of even greater importance was the translation’s cultural significance. The translation of the Bible gave great prominence to the Welsh language, to the extent that it served to preserve the ...
The last edition of the Deuteronomistic History, the one in our Bible, comes from the sixth century BCE, the time of the Babylonian Exile. In this context, it offers an explanation for Israel's ...
Kutsko: The book The Murderous History of Bible Translations by Harry Freedman chronicles the long history of burning translators at the stake or beheading them. None of us working on the NRSVue ...
In 1549 Edward VI passed the Act of Uniformity, which came into law in 1552 and required all acts of public worship to be conducted in English instead of Latin. The intention behind the act was to ...
Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, who is pastor, also touted that translation ... a Bible "free from commentary," with the intent to put the text of "a historical document and its usage in American history ...
The T'ang Code, Volume II: Specific Articles Translated by Wallace Johnson This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in ...