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Bible translations into Mongolian. 1840 printing of the Book of Jeremiah in Mongolian script. The earliest preserved translation of the Bible into the Mongolian language dates to 1827, but there is a written record of what may perhaps have been a translation existing as early as 1305. Since 1827, numerous other translations have been made.
Rabban Bar Sauma, a Chinese monk who made a pilgrimage from Khanbaliq (now Beijing) and testified to the importance of Christianity among the Mongols during his visit to Rome in 1287. Nayan Khan, a Mongol nobleman and uncle of Kublai Khan. In 1287, after becoming increasingly angry with Kublai for being “too Chinese”, Nayan staged a rebellion.
Christianity in Mongolia is a minority religion. In 2020, Christians made up 1.94% of the population. [1] Most Christians in Mongolia became Christian after the Mongolian Revolution of 1990. According to the Christian missionary group Mission Eurasia, the number of Christians grew from less than 40 in 1989 to around 40,000 as of 2023.
Gog and Magog (/ ˈɡɒɡ ... ˈmeɪɡɒɡ /; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized:Gōg ū-Māgōg) or Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized:Yaʾjūju wa-Maʾjūju) are a pair of names that appear in the Bible and the Qur'an, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands. In Ezekiel 38 ...
Edward Stallybrass (8 June 1794 in Royston, Hertfordshire [1] – 25 July 1884 [2]) was a British Congregational missionary to the Buryat people of Siberia. He translated the Bible into Mongolian. [3] [4]
The Mongols were highly tolerant of most religions during the early Mongol Empire, and typically sponsored several at the same time. At the time of Genghis Khan in the 13th century, virtually every religion had found converts, from Buddhism to Eastern Christianity and Manichaeanism to Islam. To avoid strife, Genghis Khan set up an institution ...
Isaac Jacob Schmidt (Russian: Яков Иванович (Исаак Якоб) Шмидт; 25 October [O.S. 14 October] 1779 — 20 September [O.S. 8 September] 1847 [1]) was an Orientalist specialising in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labour to Bible translation. Born in ...
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.As of September 2023 all of the Bible has been translated into 736 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,658 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,264 other languages according to Wycliffe Global Alliance.