A Fourteenth-Century Translation of the Book of Revelation from Columbia University, MS Plimpton Add. 03 Edited by Ethan Campbell Before the Wycliffite Bible in the 1380s, one of the only complete ...

The King James Version of the Bible was first published in 1611. Its literary brilliance is well known and its words and phrases have had a unique influence on the English language. Four hundred years ...

Within that larger framework, one of the major themes of the Bible is that of covenant. In Christian tradition, the two parts of the Bible are the Old and ... in the late 7th century B.C., in ...

Published nineteen years later in 1637 after a laborious translation process, the Statenvertaling (States' Translation) was the realization of the initial work of the Synod of Dordt. But the wait for ...

These books were written in the period between the Old and New Testaments. Until the sixteenth century, the Apocryphal books were ... along with the additions to Esther and Daniel. Like the ESV Bible, ...

It’s been, for decades, the primary translation in English-speaking ... the old ones? JC: The RSV will remain in print, but the NRSV will go out of print. Based upon the particular product line—be it ...

We often talk about a particular translation as “doing justice” to a text. By that, we mean that it expresses it fully—that whatever heights of prose or sleights of hand the author concocted in the ...

So gradually the old conquest model [based on the accounts of Joshua's conquests in the Bible] began to lose ... the reforms of King Josiah in the late 7th century, he talks about purging the ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. How Jesus's ...

A rare 14th-century ornate Hebrew Bible written during ... Last year, a 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, considered to be one of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, sold for $38m (£28.9m ...

A volunteer tour guide found an inscription cursing a previous owner of Gainsborough Old Hall, an old manor house in England with a history of ghosts.

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century ... Smith in the Middle East. He would search for the missing pieces that would complete the story begun by his initial translations.