IN influence upon the mind and heart of our Western world one book has been supreme. That book is the Bible; and this year there appears the first part of a new translation of it, which will be known ...

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, ...

Scholar John Goldingay wants readers to rediscover the original feel of the Old Testament in his new translation. Many people struggle with Bible reading and engagement in general, but this is ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

BYU professor Thomas Wayment shows his new translation of the New Testament, published in November 2018. Wayment's New Testament translation is a compilation of over 10 years of research. (Lexie ...

In an article last year, Dr. Stephen W. Paine, president of Houghton College, reported that a committee of fifteen evangelical scholars had begun work on a new English translation of the Bible. Many ...

A new Filipino translation of the Bible's New Testament aims to attract young readers by using what its publishers described as "heterogenous language," which is characterized by a mix of Filipino and ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...