The World English Bible (WEB) is a Public Domain (no copyright) Modern English translation of the Holy Bible. That means that you may freely copy it in any form, including electronic and print formats. The World English Bible is based on the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible first published in 1901, the Biblia Hebraica Stutgartensa Old Testament, a… Read more…
The World English Bible (WEB) is a Public Domain (no copyright) Modern English translation of the Holy Bible. That means that you may freely copy it in any form, including electronic and print formats. The World English Bible is based on the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible first published in 1901, the Biblia Hebraica Stutgartensa Old Testament, a… Read more…
The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century translation of the Bible into Latin made by St. Jerome on the orders of Pope Damasus I. It takes its name from the phrase versio vulgata, "the common (i.e., popular) version" (cf. Vulgar Latin), and was written in an everyday Latin used in conscious distinction to the elegant Ciceronian Latin of whi… Read more…
The Douay-Rheims Version of the Bible was derived from the Latin Vulgate Bible. It was first published in 1609 AD by the English college for the Catholic church. It was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 AD.
This version includes the seven deuterocanonical books.
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This translation of the Bible into Middle English is one of the oldest translations of the Bible into English. The translation was completed over a period of years between 1382-1395. Well known as a precursor to the Tyndale Bible and the King James Version, the Wycliffe Bible was very popular in its day. The English state and the Roman Catholic Chu… Read more…
William Tyndale's translation of the Bible into Early Modern English is a seminal work that has greatly impacted and shaped English translations of the Holy Scriptures. This influential translation is regarded as a major source for the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible and the Douay-Rheims Bible. The Tyndale Bible contains some of the best kno… Read more…
Svenska Folkbibeln (Swedish People's Bible) is a contemporary translation of the Bible in Swedish. It was published in 1998.
The Old Testament is a revised version of the official Swedish Bible translation from 1917, while the New Testament is a completely new translation.
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In 1917, the JPS published a definitive English translation of the Tanakh -- the books known as the Torah, Prophets (Nevi'im), and
Writings (Kethuvim). Although these books roughly correspond to the Christian "Old Testament," there are many differences in
translations. With its easy, flowing language, the JPS versio… Read more…
Joseph B. Rotherham first began to publish his EMPHASIZED BIBLE in 1868 and completed his work in 1902. THIS "electronic" version of
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible does not provide a "one-for-one" transposition of Mr. Rotherham's printed page, as set forth in Rotherham's
Emphasized Bible. Mr. Rotherham… Read more…
The New Testament in Modern Speech: an idiomatic translation into everyday English from the text of The Resultant Greek Testament by Richard Francis Weymouth; edited and partly revised by Ernest Hampden-Cook, 1903. This version was designed chiefly "to furnish a succinct and compressed running commentary (not doctrinal) to be used side by side … Read more…
