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These were the first Spanish Bible translations officially made and approved by the Church in 300 years. The Biblia Torres Amat appeared in 1825. 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.
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 ...
In the 3rd or 2nd century BC, the Septuagint [a] translation of the Old Testament into Koine Greek was completed in Alexandria, Egypt and thenceforth used by Jews who spoke Greek as their primary language. The Septuagint also included most of the deuterocanonical books. After various updates, it was probably completed in the 3rd century AD.
The Catechism and the Doctrina christiana were published in 1584, shortly after Spanish conquest, in a version in Quechua and Aymara approved by the Council of Lima (Ciudad de los Reyes) in 1583, [7] but attempts to translate the Bible into these languages were suppressed by the Spanish authorities and the Catholic Church. [8]
The Geneva Bible (1557) became the "Bible of the Puritans" and made an enormous impression on English Bible translation, second only to Tyndale. Part of this was due to its issue as a small book, an octavo size; part due to the extensive commentary; and part due to the work and endorsement of John Calvin and Theodore Beza , two of the most ...
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.As of November 2024 the whole Bible has been translated into 756 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,726 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,274 other languages according to Wycliffe Global Alliance.
This Bible, more than a 100 years old, was likely a prized possession of Michael and Mary Sutton, prominent Green Bay residents who moved to Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War.
The polyglot Bible was the result of Spain's long-lasting tradition of translations of texts. Through centuries the intellectual class of the Iberian peninsula had developed a deep understanding of the issues of translation and the difficulty of conveying, or even interpreting meaning correctly across languages.