God-Breathed by Josh McDowell

Author:Josh McDowell [McDowell, Josh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63409-381-1
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

The Bible Is Unique in Its Translation

The Old Testament was first translated from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek around 250 BC to 150 BC. The Septuagint version was primarily what the Greek-speaking world read during the time of Jesus. Later, other scholars translated the Old Testament into Greek as well. Their translation, the Coptic version, was completed around AD 350. Coptic is a version of Late Egyptian that was written in mostly Greek characters. The Latin Vulgate was translated by the scholar Jerome beginning in AD 382. It took him twenty-five years to complete the project. The Vulgate version of Scripture was the first major book that Johannes Gutenberg published on his brand-new printing press in 1455.

By the beginning of the fourth century, the Hebrew and Greek Bibles had been translated into languages such as Slavic, Syriac (a late version of Aramaic), Armenian, Bohairic (a dialect of Coptic), Persian, Arabic, Frankish, and Anglo-Saxon.

Bible translations into English, or its precursor languages, began in the fifth century with the Anglo-Saxon version. The first translator to render the entire Bible in English was John Wycliffe (1329–1384). His English translation was the only English Bible for 145 years. William Tyndale, perhaps the greatest of modern English translators of the Bible, created the Tyndale version of the English Bible in 1525. One of the most popular versions in the English-speaking world, and still popular today, is the well-known Authorized Version, better known as the King James Version (1611).

The process of translating the Bible into different languages began as early as 250 BC to 150 BC and continues today. The Bible is now the most translated book of all time. The United Bible Societies reports that, as of 2014, the Bible or portions of the Bible have been translated into 2,650 languages. Their Digital Bible Library now hosts more than eight hundred translations in 636 languages spoken by 4.3 billion people. The many languages into which the Bible has been translated encompass the primary modes of communication for well over 90 percent of the world’s population.3 The Bible is truly unique in its translation.

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