Even though the Bible is “the most-translated book in the world,” there are some rare languages into which it hasn’t been translated. Two researchers from the University of Southern California are ...

Some years ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, I decided that I wanted to learn Greek. This was so that I could read the New Testament in its original language, a desire I could not really explain, ...

We find gender-bending language in the Torah, in the greater Hebrew Bible, as well as in later Hebrew literature. And I am hardly the first one to notice this. Bible scholars, critics, and translators ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...

As good as many modern versions are, they often do not allow us to hear what the Holy Spirit actually said Translations are both a gift and a problem for the body of Christ. As members of that body, ...

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, ...