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Eugene Hoiland Peterson (November 6, 1932 – October 22, 2018) was an American Presbyterian minister, scholar, theologian, author, and poet. He wrote over 30 books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award–winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), [2] an idiomatic paraphrasing commentary and translation of the Bible into modern American English ...
In Christian Bibles the Book of Ruth, which belongs in the final section of the Hebrew Bible, is inserted between Judges and Samuel. According to Jewish tradition dating from at least the 2nd century CE, the Book of Joshua was by Joshua , the Book of Judges and the Books of Samuel were by the prophet Samuel (with some passages by the prophets ...
The Bible continues to be translated to new languages, largely by Christian organizations such as Wycliffe Bible Translators, New Tribes Mission and Bible societies. Lamin Sanneh writes that tracing the impact on the local cultures of translating the Bible into local vernacular language shows it has produced "the movements of indigenization and ...
The Committee on Bible Translation wanted to build a new version on the heritage of the NIV and, like its predecessor, create a balanced mediating version–one that would fall in-between the most literal translation and the most free; [3] between word-for-word (Formal Equivalence) [3] and thought-for-thought (Dynamic Equivalence).
Christianity Today is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham. It is published by Christianity Today International based in Carol Stream, Illinois. The Washington Post calls Christianity Today "evangelicalism's flagship magazine". [5] The New York Times describes it as a "mainstream evangelical magazine". [6]
Joslin "Josh" McDowell (born August 17, 1939) is an evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. [2] He is the author or co-author of over 150 books. In 2006, his book Evidence That Demands a Verdict was ranked 13th in Christianity Today ' s list of most influential evangelical books published after World War II. [3]
The prolific mid-third-century Christian theologian Origen, whose critical editions of the Hebrew Bible and theory of biblical interpretation have been foundational for Christian theology, could ...
The documentary hypothesis, a theory regarding the authorship of the Torah/Pentateuch, i.e. the first part of the Old Testament of the Bible Authorship of the Bible Topics referred to by the same term