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Se Wsi Testamenti Somexi (1548), the first Finnish Bible translation. The first Finnish translation of the Bible was Mikael Agricola's translation of the New Testament: Se Wsi Testamenti Somexi (The New Testament in Finnish). Agricola started working on the translation while he was studying in Germany between 1536 and 1539, or perhaps even earlier.
The Bible is the most translated book in the world, with more translations (including an increasing number of sign languages) being produced annually.Many are translated and published with the aid of a global fellowship of around 150 Bible Societies which collectively form The United Bible Societies.
In 1602, Duke Charles, the Regent of Sweden (later King Charles IX), established a committee to produce a Finnish-language Bible translation. [2] The text of this translation was partially based on the translations of the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament made by Mikael Agricola earlier in the 16th century.
Since Peter Waldo's Franco-Provençal translation of the New Testament in the late 1170s, and Guyart des Moulins' Bible Historiale manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, there have been innumerable vernacular translations of the scriptures on the European continent, greatly aided and catalysed by the development of the printing press, first invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the late 1430s.
Bible translations into English (2 C, ... Bible translations into Finnish; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Harper's Bible Dictionary: 1952 Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller The New Bible Dictionary: 1962 J. D. Douglas Second Edition 1982, Third Edition 1996 Dictionary of the Bible: 1965 John L. McKenzie, SJ [clarification needed] The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible: 1970 Henry Snyder Gehman LDS Bible Dictionary: 1979 Harper's Bible Dictionary ...
The first printed English translation of the whole Bible was produced by Miles Coverdale in 1535, using Tyndale's work together with his own translations from the Latin Vulgate or German text. After much scholarly debate it is concluded that this was printed in Antwerp and the colophon gives the date as 4 October 1535.
Bibleserver.com is a webpage offered by ERF Online [1] which, through the international cooperation with various Bible Societies and publishers, provides 46 modern and historical Bible translations in 21 languages (as of June 2011). This webpage also offers user interfaces in these 21 languages.