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Traditionalist Catholics consider this to be the best Spanish translation because it is a direct translation from St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, like the English language Douay-Rheims Bible. Of more recent versions, the first official translation of the complete Catholic Bible was done by Nácar-Colunga (1944), followed by Bover-Cantera (1947) and ...
The Reina–Valera is a Spanish translation of the Bible originally published in 1602 when Cipriano de Valera revised an earlier translation produced in 1569 by Casiodoro de Reina. This translation was known as the "Biblia del Oso" (in English: Bear Bible ) [ 1 ] because the illustration on the title page showed a bear trying to reach a ...
However, as the years passed they grew increasingly unable to read the original texts, and turned more and more to Spanish translations. Even though many of these translations were destroyed by the Inquisition, some have survived, and bear witness to the laborious task of translating and then copying the religious books by hand. In the year ...
The Sahidic translation was quite free, while the Bohairic translation was very slavish, tending to translate every word, even using grammatical borrowings. 52 manuscripts are bilingual and they contain – in addition to the Coptic text-type – the Greek text-type; 2 manuscripts are trilingual and they contain the following text-types: Greek ...
The standard Spanish language is also called Castilian in its original variant, and in order to distinguish it from other languages native to parts of Spain, such as Galician, Catalan, Basque, etc. In its earliest documented form, and up through approximately the 15th century, the language is customarily called Old Spanish .
The following is a sample from Cantar de Mio Cid (lines 330–365), with abbreviations resolved, punctuation (the original has none), and some modernized letters. [15] Below is the original Old Spanish text in the first column, along with the same text in Modern Spanish in the second column and an English translation in the third column.
Todos Santos, California ("All Saints", original name for Concord, California) Tooele, Utah (originates from "tule" , a Spanish word of Aztec origin meaning " bulrush " Trinidad, California (the area was named la Santísima Trinidad for Trinity Sunday , 11 June, date in which the Spanish explorers Bruno de Heceta and Juan Francisco de la Bodega ...
The Rashi script, originally used to print Judaeo-Spanish An original letter in Haketia, written in 1832. Judaeo-Spanish, also known as Ladino, [249] is a variety of Spanish which preserves many features of medieval Spanish and some old Portuguese and is spoken by descendants of the Sephardi Jews who were expelled from Spain in the 15th century ...