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Polyglot Bible
The Old Testament Hebrew Massoretic, Greek Septuagint (LXX), Latin Vulgate, and Luther German texts, in four columns; the New Testament in Greek and Latin and German, the last column annotated with critical notes and variants. 1863. (link to Archive.org) It’s not the Complutensian Polyglot but it is an interesting source, especially if one knows a…
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Non-English Reformation-Era Bibles – Index Page
The Reformation in the British isles was quite remarkable. In fact, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that other nations and tongues in Europe also experienced the Reformation. That said, I thought I’d try to track down some Reformation-era Bibles in other languages than English and provide those to the interested reader.…
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Groves / Sarna to be Cut Down
In a ridiculous mess, pagans in India are complaining about the fact that the Bible commands believers to destroy the places of false worship (link). The errors in the article and in the pagan reaction are legion: 1. The article notes that the translation is “Protestant” and claims that the translation is faulty. This is…
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How Times Change!
A Bible reading marathon was “too Catholic” according to a rabbi quoted in this article (link), although several Muslims were taking part in the marathon that will be kicked off by the current pope, Benedict XVI. Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the…
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Ancient Christians and their Bibles
A common myth that we hear from time to time from a number of different directions, is that Bibles were in essence Gutenberg’s invention: a testimony to Northern European printing ingenuity, but not an ancient practice. Of course it is true that printed Bibles necessarily followed the development of printing, but Bibles were being made…
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Chinese Government Distributing Bibles
I ran across this interesting blog post at the Theologica blog(link). The post explains that the Chinese government (!) will be distributing 10,000 bilingual Chinese/English Bibles in the Olympic village. I hope that many of those Bibles will not make back home, but will be redistributed to the billion or so Chinese folks who have…
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Two Bad Bible Versions
The Bayly Brothers (in particular, Tim, I think) have a good rerun of an article they previously posted (in 2004) on why “The Living Translation” and “Today’s New International Version” are bad. (link) It’s really a must-read, if you want a reasonable critique that – in my opinion – thoroughly obviates the need to purchase…
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Bibles.org.uk
I recently came across a an interesting web site that appears to have as its primary focus the propagation of the Bible. One of the most interesting aspects of the web site is that it has a number of resources available both via its own website but also via the self-publishing website LuLu. According to…
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Reformed Blog in Farsi
To some extent, I have to trust my Farsi-reading viewers to confirm that the blog I’m linking to below is in fact Farsi and is in fact Reformed. Nevertheless, based on the information I have, if you are interested in the Bible and more familiar with Farsi or a related language, this blog may be…
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On-Line Bibles
I’m pleased to announce that the German Bible Society has now made publicly available, via the internet, the text of: The Hebrew Bible (BHS)The LXX (Rahlfs/Hanhart)The Nestle-Aland Critical Greek NT (NA27)The Vulgate (Weber/Gryson)and others Get it here (link)Thanks to Nick Norelli for bringing it to my attention (link). -Turretinfan To God be the Glory!