Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old an ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...

Running multiple Catholic groups on various platforms from Facebook to Discord, a frequent question and discussion that comes up is, “Which Bible is right for me?” This is always a loaded question ...

He worked with a team for 34 years to translate both the Old and New Testament, an accomplishment that prompted the response: ‘Now God speaks my language!’ ...

Have you ever wondered which are the best and most accurate bible translations according to scholars? Before we get into any deeper analysis, let’s first make some things clear. There are over ...

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, ...

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...

“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 ...

First finished Scripture for deaf people prompts attention to global need. The completion of the first sign language Bible translated from the original languages prompted cheers and celebrations in ...