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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.
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The Digital Bible Library lists over 240 different contributors. [1] According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible ...
Pierre Robert Olivetan/Olivétan (c. 1506 – 1538), a Waldensian by faith [citation needed], was the first translator of the Bible into the French language on the basis of Hebrew and Greek texts, rather than from Latin. He was a cousin of John Calvin, who wrote a Latin preface for the translation, [1] often called the Olivetan Bible .
The Acre Bible was translated into Occitan in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 2426 [3] Lou Libre de Toubìo, Provençal translation of the Book of Tobit by "lou Felibre d'Entre-Mount" (Aix: Sardat fils, 1880) Sants Evangèlis, translated to Occitan by Juli Cubaines (Toloza: Societat d'Estudis Occitans, 1931)
Transliteration, which adapts written form without altering the pronunciation when spoken out, is opposed to letter transcription, which is a letter by letter conversion of one language into another writing system. Still, most systems of transliteration map the letters of the source script to letters pronounced similarly in the target script ...
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.
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