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 ...

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 ...

Wycliffe Associates’ new methodology can fly through a New Testament translation project in a matter of weeks. So why are other translators wary? Ever since Wycliffe Associates (WA) debuted a new ...

Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, embarked on his own translation of the Hebrew Bible in 1999 with “The David Story,” a translation of and commentary on ...

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.” ...

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 ...