The following are the most important versions or translations of the Bible. 1. Septuagint. The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between ...

the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible - a 2nd-century B.C. Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture. It was the "Bible" for the Greek-speaking Jews.

In all schools, in all places, it will only be the King James Bible and a couple of closely related variants. The King James Version is a beautiful, magisterial translation of the Bible.

Last spring, the National Council of Churches commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to lead a review and update of the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible. The new NRSV ...

A heart-wrenching new film recounts the beheadings 10 years ago this week of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS radicals. Yet the film, simply titled "The 21," also tells the poignant story ...

Here is the miracle of the King James Bible in action. Words from a doubly alien culture, not an original text but a translation of ancient Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, made centuries ago and ...

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 ...