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The Svenska Folkbibeln (Swedish People's Bible) is a contemporary translation of the Bible in Swedish. The New Testament was published in 1996 and the entire Bible in 1998. During the autumn of 2014 a revised edition of the Book of Psalms and the New Testament was published. [1]
There are remarkably few Bible translations into Swedish that have been made before the last two centuries. [1] The Latin common Bible is known to have been used by the Catholic Church during the Christian part of the middle ages , but at least paraphrases in Swedish of some parts of the Bible were made at the time. [ 2 ]
The Gustav Vasa Bible (Swedish: Gustav Vasas bibel) is the common name of the Swedish Bible translation published in 1540–41. The full title is as shown in the image: Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko. Translated into English: "The Bible / That is / All the Holy Scripture / in Swedish".
Svenska Folkbibeln; Swedish Bible Society This page was last edited on 13 November 2023, at 05:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Front page of the first complete Swedish translation of the Bible in 1541, known as the Gustav Vasa Bible. The Reformation in Sweden is generally regarded as having begun in 1527 during the reign of King Gustav I of Sweden, but the process was slow and was not definitively decided until the Uppsala Synod of 1593, in the wake of an attempted Counter-Reformation during the reign of John III ...
Modern Swedish (Swedish: nysvenska) is the linguistic term used for the Swedish language from the Bible translation of 1526 to the development of a common national language around 1880. The period can further be divided into Early Modern Swedish (1526–1750) and Late Modern Swedish (1750–1880).
The Swedish Bible Belt (Swedish: bibelbältet) is a region centered on Jönköping in northern Småland where demographics show that people are characteristically more religious. [1] In the Bible Belt the free churches are relatively popular in comparison to the Church of Sweden . [ 1 ]
Mother Troll and Her Sons by Swedish painter John Bauer, 1915. Troll (Norwegian and Swedish), trolde (Danish) is a designation for several types of human-like supernatural beings in Scandinavian folklore. [27] They are mentioned in the Edda (1220) as a monster with many heads. [28] Later, trolls became characters in fairy tales, legends and ...