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"Bible House", the headquarters of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, the oldest in the United States, founded in 1808. A Bible society is a non-profit organization, usually nondenominational in makeup, devoted to translating, publishing, and distributing the Bible at affordable prices.
By 1912, American Bible Society issued Bibles for use in the United States in 83 languages besides English. Foreign circulation was rising steadily, increasing from 250,000 copies in 1876 to over 2 million copies in 1915. [11]
BFBS was not the first Bible Society in the world. The first organisation in Britain to be called "The Bible Society" was founded in 1779: it still exists and is called the Naval & Military Bible Society. [3] The first BFBS translation project was the Gospel of John into Mohawk for Canada in 1804. [4]
UBS developed Paratext, the most important and widely used software for Bible translation. [6] [7] [8] It performs many functions unique to the Bible translation task, and to the process of translating into a language whose writing system is still being developed. The text editor is indexed to the Biblical texts enabling powerful searching and ...
Bible Society Australia maintains that the Bible is a significant historic text which has deeply influenced society and culture and is still relevant today. [2] The organisation is involved in translating , publishing , and distributing the Christian Bible , from print, to audio, to digital versions. [ 3 ]
Good News Bible (GNB), also called the Good News Translation (GNT) in the United States, is an English translation of the Bible by the American Bible Society. It was first published as the New Testament under the name Good News for Modern Man in 1966.
God's Word is the first English Bible in which English reviewers were actively involved with scholars at every stage of the translation process. Because of the involvement of English experts, God's Word looks and reads like contemporary American literature. It uses clear, natural English; follows standard punctuation and capitalization rules ...
Byington translated the Bible on his own for 45 years from 1898 to 1943, but was unable to have it published during his lifetime. After he died in 1957, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society acquired the publication rights, but the translation was not published until 1972. [ 1 ]
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