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A simplified Chinese Bible along with Pinyin, text rendered in the Roman alphabet, was published in 2004. On July 5, 2019 Jehovah's Witnesses released the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in Chinese Traditional and Simplified at a regional convention at the National Taiwan Sport University Stadium in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
Chinese Standard Bible (CSB 中文标准译本 Zhongwen biaozhun yiben), New Testament, Global Bible Initiative and Holman Bible Publishers 2011; Chinese NET Bible (NET圣经 中译本), 2011–2012; Contemporary Chinese Version (CCV), The New Testament, 《圣经．新汉语译本》 Chinese Bible International (汉语圣经协会) 2010 ...
The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian and Uyghur. The other languages of China are mainly tribal languages, mainly spoken in Yunnan in Southwest China. [1]
The CUV in use today is the vernacular Mandarin Chinese version, published in two slightly different editions—the Shen Edition (神版) and the Shangti Edition (上帝版)--differing in the way the word “God” is translated. The vernacular Chinese language in the CUV has changed a lot since 1919 and its language is stilted for modern readers.
Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the Bible. He also compiled a Chinese dictionary for the use of Westerners. The Bible translation took twelve years and the compilation of the dictionary, sixteen years. During this period, in 1815, he left the employment of the East India Company. [24]
The Studium Biblicum Version was translated by the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Hong Kong (a bible society not affiliated with the United Bible Societies). Translation originally started in 1935 as a personal effort by a Franciscan Friar, the Blessed Gabriele Allegra , but translation work was halted due to World War II , and part of the ...
The New Testament was first published in 1975, and the entire Bible was published in 1979. The Bible uses simple, easy to read Chinese, and avoids complex and specialist terminology. The New York Times, apparently unaware of the Studium Biblicum Version or the translation by Lü Chen Chung , hailed it as the first Mandarin translation of the ...
Gabriele Allegra (Chinese: 雷永明, 26 December 1907 – 26 January 1976) was a Franciscan friar and Biblical scholar. He is best known for accomplishing the first complete translation of the Bible into the Chinese language. His Studium Biblicum Translation is often considered the