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Bible translations into French date back to the Medieval era. [1] After a number of French Bible translations in the Middle Ages, the first printed translation of the Bible into French was the work of the French theologian Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples in 1530 in Antwerp. This was substantially revised and improved in 1535 by Pierre Robert Olivétan.
Louis Segond (3 May 1810 – 18 June 1885) was a Swiss theologian who translated the Bible into French from the original texts in Hebrew and Greek. He was born in Plainpalais , near Geneva. After studying theology in Geneva , Strasbourg and Bonn , he was pastor of the Geneva National Church in Chêne-Bougeries , then from 1872, Professor of Old ...
The Scofield Reference Bible is a widely circulated study Bible. Edited and annotated by the American Bible student Cyrus I. Scofield, it popularized dispensationalism at the beginning of the 20th century. Published by Oxford University Press and containing the entire text of the traditional, Protestant King James Version, it first appeared in ...
To these aims the Society was the original publisher of translations the Bible into several contemporary languages, among which Louis Segond's French Bible (1910) and L. L. Zamenhof's Bible in Esperanto (1926). [14] The Bible Society has by far the largest collection of Bibles in the world, with about 39,000 items.
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago. It was initially published quarterly in twelve volumes, then republished in 1917 by the Bible Institute of Los Angeles as a four-volume set. Baker ...
The Living Bible (TLB or LB) is a personal paraphrase, not a translation, of the Bible in English by Kenneth N. Taylor and first published in 1971. Taylor used the American Standard Version of 1901 as his base text. [1] "The Way", an illustrated edition, was published shortly thereafter, in 1972. It additionally included short devotional passages.
The Traduction œcuménique de la Bible (English: Ecumenical Translation of the Bible; abr.: TOB; full name: La Bible : traduction œcuménique) is a French ecumenical translation of the Bible, first made in 1975-1976 by Catholics and Protestants. The project was initiated by Dominicans, and took the form of a revision of the Jerusalem Bible ...
e. The American Standard Version (ASV), officially Revised Version, Standard American Edition, is a Bible translation into English that was completed in 1901 with the publication of the revision of the Old Testament. The revised New Testament had been published in 1900. It was previously known by its full name, but soon came to have other names ...