query: what was the original language of the new testament

pos: Language of the New Testament original language of the New Testament claim logical improbabilities in the Greek Text compared to the Syriac/Hebrew Texts and vocabulary containing wordplay in the Syriac/Hebrew New Testament texts that parallels Hebraic wordplay in the Old Testament. These arguments are rejected by the academic mainstream. Language of the New Testament The New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BC) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c. 600). The New Testament Gospels and Epistles were only part of a Hellenistic Jewish culture

pos: Greek New Testament Greek New Testament The Greek New Testament is the original form of the books that make up the New Testament as they appeared in Koine Greek, the common dialect from 300 BC to 300 AD. There are several Greek-language versions of the New Testament that approximate the original form of the New Testament books in Greek. The first published edition of the Greek New Testament was produced by Erasmus in 1516. There are multiple Greek copies of the New Testament Byzantine text-types, used by the Greek Orthodox Church. There exist multiple copies of the New Testament "Textus Receptus", the basis

pos: Greek New Testament their chief foundations being: Greek New Testament The Greek New Testament is the original form of the books that make up the New Testament as they appeared in Koine Greek, the common dialect from 300 BC to 300 AD. There are several Greek-language versions of the New Testament that approximate the original form of the New Testament books in Greek. The first published edition of the Greek New Testament was produced by Erasmus in 1516. There are multiple Greek copies of the New Testament Byzantine text-types, used by the Greek Orthodox Church. There exist multiple copies of the New Testament

pos: Biblical software them today. Bible software was much faster than traditional study tools in a book forms. Early Bible software was aimed simply at word and phrase searches in different modern translations. Later, as computers improved in handling foreign language fonts, the original Hebrew Old Testament and Koine Greek New Testament texts of the Bible were added. When working with the original biblical languages, one of the first capabilities was morphology or parsing, providing information on the parts of speech of various words to assist in understanding the intent of the text. At this point many Bible software programs emerged which are

pos: Language of the New Testament Language of the New Testament The New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BC) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c. 600). The New Testament Gospels and Epistles were only part of a Hellenistic Jewish culture in the Roman Empire, where Alexandria had a larger Jewish population than Jerusalem, and Greek was spoken by more Jews than Hebrew. Other Jewish Hellenistic writings include those of Jason of Cyrene, Josephus, Philo, Demetrius the chronographer, Eupolemus, Pseudo-Eupolemus, Artapanus of Alexandria, Cleodemus Malchus,

pos: Bible a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BCE) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c. 600). The original autographs, that is, the original Greek writings and manuscripts written by the original authors of the New Testament, have not survived. But historically "copies" exist of those original autographs, transmitted and preserved in a number of manuscript traditions. There have been some minor variations, additions or omissions, in some of the texts. When ancient scribes copied earlier books, they sometimes wrote notes on the margins of the

pos: Olga Constantinovna of Russia hundred rats like me." Olga's interest in political and public opinion was limited. Although she favored Greece's Russian party, she had no political influence over her husband and did not seek political influence in the Greek parliament. An Orthodox Christian from birth, Queen Olga became aware, during visits to wounded servicemen in the Greco-Turkish War (1897), that many were unable to read the Bible. The version used by the Church of Greece included the Septuagint version of the Old Testament and the original Greek-language version of the New Testament. Both were written in Koine Greek while her contemporaries used either

pos: Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem Christ spread from Jerusalem. The Church celebrates its liturgy in the Byzantine Rite, whose original language is Koine Greek, the original language of the New Testament, and follows its own calendar of feasts, preserving the Julian calendar (that is thirteen days behind the Western (Gregorian) calendar). It is also often called "Σιωνίτις Εκκλησία" (, i.e. the "Church of Zion"). The number of Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land is estimated at about 500,000. A majority of Church members are Palestinians and Jordanians, and there are also many Russians, Romanians, and Georgians. The Church's hierarchy is dominated by Greek clergy, which

pos: Matthew 7:6 Matthew 7:6 Matthew 7:6 is the sixth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse contains an ambiguous warning about placing "pearls before swine." The original Koine Greek, according to Westcott and Hort, reads: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: This well known verse, which has no parallel elsewhere in the New Testament, is a difficult one to interpret. There is much debate over what is represented by the holy

neg: Aramaic New Testament Aramaic New Testament The New Testament in the Aramaic (Syriac) language exists in three versions: The official Assyrian Church of the East (known by some as the Nestorian Church) does not recognise the new "Assyrian Modern" edition, and traditionally considers the New Testament of the Peshitta to be the original New Testament, and Aramaic to be its original language. This view was popularised in the West by the Assyrian Church of the East scholar George Lamsa, but is not supported by the majority of scholars, either of the Peshitta or the Greek New Testament. The traditional New Testament of the

neg: Confraternity Bible revision of the Douay-Challoner version, which itself was a translation from Latin. Thus, the Church's focus shifted to a completely new translation of the entire Bible with emphasis on original language sources. This is not to say that the CCD's Old Testament translation efforts up to that point were scrapped. Quite to the contrary, they continued, as the CCD's Old Testament from the outset was "Translated from the Original Languages with Critical Use of All the Ancient Sources" – an approach that was presumably in complete accord with the September 1943 encyclical. What is known of the Confraternity's Old Testament

neg: Aramaic New Testament to English include: This list does not include adaptations of such as the "Hebraic Roots Version" by James Trimm (2001) which are adaptations from the JPS New Testament (translated directly from Greek into Hebrew), not the Peshitta. Aramaic New Testament The New Testament in the Aramaic (Syriac) language exists in three versions: The official Assyrian Church of the East (known by some as the Nestorian Church) does not recognise the new "Assyrian Modern" edition, and traditionally considers the New Testament of the Peshitta to be the original New Testament, and Aramaic to be its original language. This view was popularised

neg: Aramaic New Testament this milieu. The great number of phonetically correct Aramaisms and his knowledge of the conditions in Jewish Palestine compel us to assume a Palestinian Jewish-Christian author. Also, the author's Aramaic native language is still discernible in the Marcan style. The hypothesis of an Aramaic original for the New Testament holds that the original text of the New Testament was not written in Greek, as held by the majority of scholars, but in the Aramaic language, which was the language of Jesus and the Apostles. The position of the Assyrian Church of the East is that the Syriac Peshitta (a Bible

neg: Joseph Smith (Presbyterian minister, born 1736) call in Brandywine, Pennsylvania. He and his family moved west to Cross Creek in what is now Washington County, Pennsylvania. There, he built a home and a log school called "The Study," where he taught. Smith was known as a "firery and eloquent speaker" and held days-long revivals on the high plateau at Upper Buffalo. He loved reading religious materials in the original language: The Old Testament in Hebrew, the New Testament in Greek, Edward Leigh's "Critica Sacra", and Pool's "Synopsis". It was said that he kept a cloak at the foot of his bed for use when he would

neg: Bible translations into Uto-Aztecan languages Tik Nawat". The Bible is being translated from the original languages. The New Testament is complete, and work is ongoing on the Old Testament. The New Testament in the O'odham language (Uto-Aztecan family) of the O'odham of the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico was translated by Dean and Lucille Saxton of Wycliffe Bible Translators. Work is being done on the Old Testament. Portions, 1994 Wycliffe Bible Translators' Tarahumara New Testament was published in the 1972. This was preceded by the gospels and acts being published in 1969. Little Flock Christian Fellowship updated the New testament and published

neg: Bible translations into Finnish of Old Testament, deuterocanonicals and New Testament. In translation, it uses the technique of formal equivalence. The language was archaic even contemporaneously as it aimed to create a solemn mood against both the meaning of the original text as well as conventions of the Finnish language. " (New Testament and Psalms in modern Finnish) is a 1973 translation by the and Suomen Kirkon Sisälähetysseura. The translation proved short-lived, because of the publication of "Uusi kirkkoraamattu" (New Church Bible) in 1992. The translation technique used in "Uusi testamentti nykysuomeksi" is that of dynamic equivalence. The latest official Finnish translation dates from

neg: Krio language from the United Kingdom in 1961, writers and educators began promoting its use. In the 1960s, Thomas Decker translated some of Shakespeare's plays into Krio, and composed original poetry in the language. In the 1980s the New Testament was translated into Krio. Beginning with the involvement of Lutheran Bible Translators, Krio-language translations of the New Testament and Bible were published in 1986 and 2013. While English is Sierra Leone's official language, the Ministry of Education began using Krio as the medium of instruction in some primary schools in Freetown in the 1990s. Radio stations now broadcast a wide variety of

neg: George Lamsa Aramaic, which is in turn a Semitic language. The language spoken in the first century would have been Old Aramaic, like the Judeo-Aramaic language, while Ancient Aramaic like Biblical Aramaic was used in Old Testament times. Lamsa was a strong advocate of a belief traditionally held by part of that Church; that the Aramaic New Testament of the Peshitta was the original source text, and that the Greek texts were translated from it. In support of this, he claimed that Aramaic was the language of Jesus and his disciples. According to Lamsa, "Aramaic was the colloquial and literary language of

neg: Bible translations into Native South American languages New Testament, 1989 and 2000 Old and New Testament 1976 New Testament, 1994 Old and New Testament 1996 New Testament 1992 New Testament 1997 New Testament 2011 Old and New Testament 2003 New Testament 2007 New Testament 2006 New Testament 2008 New Testament 1997 New Testament 2006 New Testament 2010 New Testament 2002 New Testament The translation of the Bible into Guaraní language is known as "Ñandejara Ñe'ê". Paulo and Quézia Oliveira have translated the New Testament and portions of the old Testament into the Tembé language. Luke was published in November 2008 and the whole New Testament is currently

neg: Bible translations into Mongolian Edward Stallybrass and William Swan (missionary) (1791–1866) both of the London Missionary Society (LMS), who translated the Old and then the New Testament into the literary Mongolian language. STALLYBRASS, E., W. SWAN, R. YUILLE and I. J. SCHMIDT. 1840. "Old Testament in Mongolian". Khodon, Siberia, STALLYBRASS, E. and W. SWAN. 1846. "The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek into the Mongolian language". London: British and Foreign Bible Society. Joseph Edkins and Joseph Schereschewsky, together with a Mongolian lama, revised Swan and Stallybrass's translation of Matthew into colloquial Khalkha Mongolian. It

neg: Máire Máire Máire is the Irish language form of the Latin Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם or Miryam English language name "Mary". It was and still is a popular name in Ireland, and is sometimes spelt in its Anglicised form "Maura". Historically, "Maol Muire" (devotee of Mary) was the reverential form used by the Irish, just as "Giolla Phádraig" (servant of Pádraig) was the reverential usage for what subsequently became Pádraig.

neg: Institute for New Testament Textual Research to comprehensively document and analyse the history of the textual tradition of the New Testament in its Greek original language. List of Greek NT manuscripts - The Institute for New Testament Textual Research operates the international recording list of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. All newly discovered manuscripts anywhere in the world are being recorded, examined and provided with a short description at the Institute. Reconstruction of the initial text - The core objective is to gain an impression, for the first time based on the entire material available today, of the textual history, and to reconstruct from this

neg: Westcott-Hort Westcott-Hort The New Testament in the Original Greek is a Greek-language version of the New Testament published in 1881. It is also known as the Westcott and Hort text, after its editors Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828–1892). (Textual scholars use the abbreviation "WH".) It is a critical text, compiled from some of the oldest New Testament fragments and texts that had been discovered at the time. The two editors worked together for 28 years. Westcott and Hort state: "[It is] our belief that even among the numerous unquestionably spurious readings of the New Testament there

neg: Moffatt, New Translation In beginning his work in 1901, he arranged the New Testament into what he perceived to be historical order and provided an original translation of the New Testament, "The Historical New Testament. Being the Literature of the New Testament Arranged in the Order of Its Literary Growth and According to the Dates of the Documents." Moffatt's departed from traditional translations in several areas. Firstly, he held to the documentary hypothesis and printed his Bible in different typefaces according to which author he believed had written each particular section. Secondly, he dated most books hundreds of years later than most theologians

neg: New Testament same list first. These councils also provided the canon of the Old Testament, which included the so-called apocryphal books . The original texts were written in the first century of the Christian Era, in Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BC) until the Muslim conquests in the 7th century AD. All the works that eventually became incorporated into the New Testament are believed to have been written no later than around 120 AD. John A. T. Robinson, Dan Wallace, and William F. Albright dated all the books of

neg: New Testament in Silesian New Testament in Silesian Nowy Testamynt po ślonsku [The New Testament in Silesian] was published in 2017 in Radzionków, Upper Silesia, Poland by Szymon Tobor’s publishing house, Wydawnictwo Tobor. translated the New Testament into the Silesian language from the 16th-century Polish language Jakub Wujek Bible. For the sake of this translation the translator developed a specific spelling fully based on Polish orthography, rather than follow the standard Silesian spelling system. This Silesian-language translation of the New Testament was received to much acclaim among the Silesian-speaking community. On 13 December 2017 a conference on this translation was held in Upper Silesia’s

neg: Chinese Union Version the CUV have fallen into disuse and cannot be found in commonly available dictionaries today. Work towards the revision for the CUV, the "Revised Chinese Union Version" (RCUV), started in the early 1980s. Its goal was to update the language of the CUV while keeping as much of the original translation as intact as possible, ultimately resulting in an update of 15% of the New Testament and 20% of the Old Testament. The revision to the New Testament was completed in 2006 (新约全书─和合本修订版), and to the entire Bible in 2010. This version was consecrated on 27 September 2010 at St.

neg: Development of the New Testament canon if they wished to deny that Marcion's list was the true one, it was incumbent on them to define what the true one "was." The expansion phase of the "New Testament canon" thus could have begun in response to Marcion's proposed "limited canon". The Muratorian fragment is the earliest known example of a defined list of mostly New Testament books. It survives, damaged and thus incomplete, as a bad Latin translation of an original, no longer extant, Greek text that is usually dated in the late 2nd century, although a few scholars have preferred a 4th-century date. This is an

neg: Scots language rhymes and poems in Scots. The book contains a five-page glossary of contemporary Scots words and their pronunciations. Alexander Gray's translations into Scots constitute the greater part of his work, and are the main basis for his reputation. In 1983 William Laughton Lorimer's translation of the New Testament from the original Greek was published. Highly anglicised Scots is sometimes used in contemporary fiction, for example, the Edinburgh dialect of Scots in "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh (later made into a motion picture of the same name). "But'n'Ben A-Go-Go" by Matthew Fitt is a cyberpunk novel written entirely in what Wir Ain

neg: New Testament by saying "The more often you have copies that agree with each other, especially if they emerge from different geographical areas, the more you can cross-check them to figure out what the original document was like. The only way they'd agree would be where they went back genealogically in a family tree that represents the descent of the manuscripts. In attempting to determine the original text of the New Testament books, some modern textual critics have identified sections as additions of material, centuries after the gospel was written. These are called interpolations. In modern translations of the Bible, the results

neg: Accommodation (religion) is easy to accept once the notion of an infinite, all-powerful God is presupposed. Linked to this idea is the added complication of human languages. Church tradition (including more recent statements of faith like the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and the Cambridge Declaration) holds to the belief that only the original Hebrew Old Testament text and the original Greek New Testament text can be clearly identified as God's word. Therefore, any human translation of the original language will automatically not be considered God's inspired word – which naturally includes the 5th century Latin Vulgate, as well as today's more

neg: Amplified Bible 2015, now known as the Amplified Holy Bible; more amplifications in the Old Testament were added, and refinements made to the New Testament amplifications. The bulk of the work of producing the "Amplified Bible" was undertaken by Frances Siewert, employed by the Lockman Foundation. () and — —: signify additional phases of meaning included in the original word, phrase, or clause of the original language. Acts 16:31 is the example used in the Publisher's Foreword, illustrating some of the features of the Amplified Bible, in comparison with other translations: Acts 16:31, King James Version: And they said, Believe on the

neg: Ephraim Weston Clark When he resigned as Kahu of Kawaiahaʻo Church in 1868, Clark was president of the committee to revise the Hawaiian language translation of the Bible. His second wife Sarah Helen Richards became his assistant in the revision. He had been involved with the original translation project for decades, and had made trips to the mainland United States in 1856, 1859 and 1864 to meet with printers. The translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew and Aramaic, and the New Testament from ancient Greek, had been an ongoing project begun in 1824 by Hiram Bingham, William Richards, Artemas Bishop,

neg: Language of the New Testament about 12 percent are in Latin, and only 18 percent are in Hebrew or Aramaic. "In Jerusalem itself about 40 percent of the Jewish inscriptions from the first century period (before 70 C.E.) are in Greek. We may assume that most Jewish Jerusalemites who saw the inscriptions in situ were able to read them". Most biblical scholars adhere to the view that the Greek text of the New Testament is the original version. However, there does exist an alternative view which maintains that it is a translation from an Aramaic original, a position known as Peshitta Primacy (also known in

neg: Holman Christian Standard Bible equivalence translation is "to convey a sense of the original text with as much clarity as possible". To that end, the ancient source texts were exhaustively scrutinized at multiple levels (word, phrase, clause, sentence, discourse) to determine their original meaning and intent. Afterwards, using the best language tools available, the semantic and linguistic equivalents were translated into as readable a text as possible. Making use of the most recent scholarly editions, the translators worked from the Nestle-Aland "Novum Testamentum Graece" 27th edition and the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament 4th corrected edition for the New Testament, and the 5th

neg: Wang Laiquan what he believed that the Lord would provide as needed. Wang soon learned from Taylor how to read and write the Romanized Ningbo dialect and began teaching others what he had learned about God from the Scriptures. In 1860 Taylor’s health was deteriorating and Wang accompanied the Taylor family to London, England in 1860 as a helper and language tutor for new missionaries. He also assisted Taylor, his wife, Maria and Frederick Foster Gough in the revision of the Ningbo dialect New Testament in Romanized colloquial for the Bible Society. Wang’s native language expertise assured that the final translation would

neg: Biblical manuscript Armenian, geo for Georgian, got for Gothic, aeth for Ethiopic, and slav for Old Church Slavonic). The New Testament books appear to have been completed within the 1st century. The original manuscripts of the New Testament books are not known to have survived. The autographs are believed to have been lost or destroyed a long time ago. What survives are copies of the original. Generally speaking, these copies were made centuries after the originals from other copies rather than from the autograph. Paleography, a science of dating manuscripts by typological analysis of their scripts, is the most precise and objective

neg: Spiros Zodhiates range of social services, including care for orphans and leprosy patients, and has an expanding evangelistic thrust of “Advertising the Message of the Gospel” through paid newspaper and magazine gospel messages in many lands and languages. In 1951, Zodhiates’ passion for radio was born when he realized the power of media to get the message of Christianity to the masses. Using his Greek background and knowledge of the Greek language as a springboard, Zodhiates took to the airwaves, teaching the New Testament in light of the original Greek meaning of the words used. Zodhiates’ program, "New Testament Light", began on

neg: Bible translations into Cree Bible translations into Cree Bible translations into Cree can be subdivided by dialect of the Cree language. The main dialects are Plains Cree language, Woods Cree language, Swampy Cree language, Moose Cree language, Northern East Cree language, Southern East Cree language, Kawawachikamach, Atikamekw language and the Montagnais language (Western Innu and Eastern Innu). New Testament, 2014. Bible portions, 1921 New Testament, 2001 Methodist, later Anglican, William Mason and his wife Sophia Thomas Mason's work comprises several editions of the Gospel of St John in the Plains Cree dialect made between 1851 and 1857, the complete New Testament in 1859, and

neg: Bible translations into Greek Constantinople, Maximos of Gallipoli (or Kallioupolites, died 1633) translated a vernacular New Testament from 1629 which was printed at Geneva in 1638. An edition of the New Testament into Modern Greek translated by Seraphim of Mytilene was edited in London in 1703 by the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. This translation was formally condemned in 1704 by the reigning Patriarch Gabriel III of Constantinople. Frangiskos Soavios publishes in the year 1833 the Pentateuch and the Book of Josua translated from the Hebrew Original into the Modern Greek Language. A translation of the Bible (Old

neg: The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation is an original English-language manga adaptation of the Bible created by Ajinbayo "Siku" Akinsiku, who was responsible for the concept and the art and the script writer Akin Akinsiku. It was released in July 2007 by Galilee Trade. They summarize the narrative of the Bible in a 200-page graphic novel including the Old Testament and the New Testament. With their work, they combine the Western and the Japanese culture to tell the Bible in a new way. The book is especially aimed at readers between the

neg: The Message (Bible) The Message (Bible) The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language was created and translated by Eugene H. Peterson and published in segments from 1993 to 2002. It is an idiomatic translation of the original languages of the Bible. "The Message" was translated by Peterson from the original languages. It is a highly idiomatic translation, using contemporary slang from the US rather than a more neutral International English, and it falls on the extreme dynamic end of the dynamic and formal equivalence spectrum. According to the Introduction to the New Testament of "The Message", its "contemporary idiom keeps the language of

neg: New American Bible Revised Edition New American Bible Revised Edition The New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE) is an English-language Catholic Bible translation, the first major update in 20 years to the New American Bible (NAB), originally published in 1970 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Released on March 9, 2011, it consists of the 1986 revision of the NAB New Testament with a fully revised Old Testament approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2010. Approved for private use and study by Catholics, the NABRE has not received approval for Catholic liturgical use. Although the revised Lectionary based on the original

neg: Moru language primer for use in schools. An adult literacy primer 'Buzevosite' was also produced in the 1970s and published by New Day Publishers in Juba. This primer, in keeping with the strong Christian commitment of the Moru people, has a Christian theme. The New Testament and Psalms, 'Taobaro To'di', was first published in 1951. The full Moru bible, 'Baibolo Alokado', with both the Old Testament and the New Testament was published by the Bible Society in Sudan in 1999. Moru language Moru is a Central Sudanic language spoken in South Sudan by the Moru people. Dialects are Agi, Andri, ’Bali’ba, Kadiro,

neg: Guarani language tekoruvicharenda ha akatúape jeguerekópe; ha ikatu rupi oikuaa añetéva ha añete'yva, iporãva ha ivaíva, tekotevẽ pehenguéicha oiko oñondivekuéra." The New Testament was translated from Greek into Guaraní by Dr John William Lindsay (1875-1946), who was a Scottish medical missionary based in Belen, Paraguay. The New Testament was printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1913. It is believed to be the first New Testament translated into any South American indigenous language. A more modern translation of the whole Bible into Guarani is known as "Ñandejara Ñe'ẽ". Guarani language Guarani () specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani

neg: Modern Language Bible three experienced Bible scholars to revise The Berkeley New Testament, namely, E. Schuyler English, Litt.D., chairman; Frank E. Gaebelein, A.M., Litt.D.; and G. Henry Waterman, A.M., Ph.D. The present edition is the result of their work." Modern Language Bible The Modern Language Bible carries the subtitle, The New Berkeley Version in Modern English; however, only the New Testament was revised. This translation was a revision of an earlier translation by Gerrit Verkuyl. According to the preface: "Approximately twenty-five years have passed since The Berkeley New Testament first appeared in 1945. During this quarter century, the need for its revision has

neg: Books of the Bible of Christian Bibles is called the Old Testament, which contains, at minimum, the above 24 books but divided into 39 books and ordered differently. The Catholic Church and Eastern Christian churches also hold that certain deuterocanonical books and passages are part of the Old Testament canon. The second part is the New Testament, containing 27 books; the four Canonical gospels, Acts of the Apostles, 21 Epistles or letters and the Book of Revelation. The King James Bible—which has been called "the most influential version of the most influential book in the world, in what is now its most influential language"

neg: George Lamsa Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, from the fourth century B. C. to the ninth century A. D." This view of the Assyrian Church regarding the Language of the New Testament is rejected by mainstream scholarship, but Lamsa's views won support among some churches such as The Way. Lamsa further claimed that while most of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the original was lost and the present Hebrew version, the Masoretic text, was re-translated from the Peshitta. Lamsa produced his own translation of the Bible in the form of "The Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts", which is

neg: Henrik Florinus in 1675, Florinus married Katarina Eriksdotter Pihli, widow of the chaplain of Halikko. They had two sons. All together, with his three wives, Florinus had 18 children. In 1680, Florinus was elected for parliament from his clergy. The next year, he received another honorable tribute because he was elected to review the language and its form of the Bible in 1642. Florinus completed his review of the Old Testament in 1682 and two years later did the New Testament. He had good lingual qualifications for this work because he was able to understand both Finnish and the original languages of

neg: Gregorius Favorinus other members were professor Martinus Stodius and Masku provost Henrik Hoffman. Presumably Tavastian-born Favorinus diversified the language among Stodius and Hoffman, who were from Finland Proper. Each member of committee translated certain parts, which were reviewed in meetings. It is not known who translated what. The Old Testament was finished in 1640, after which it was printed in Stockholm. The New Testament followed in 1641 and the project was completed in the following year; ""the most humble subjects"" Petraeus, Hoffman, Strodius and Favorinus dedicated their foreword to queen Christina dated on 20 July 1642. Each member of committee were granted

neg: Chaha language few texts in the language, three novels have appeared in the Chaha dialect (by Sahlä and Gäbräyäsus Haylämaryam). To represent the palatalized consonants not found in Ge'ez, Amharic, or Tigrinya, modified characters were introduced to the script, such as using wedges on the tops. The original use of this was done in the New Testament published by the Ethiopian Bible Society, then for the entire Bible; it has now become generally adopted. Chaha language Chaha or Cheha (in Chaha and Amharic: ቸሃ "čehā" or "čexā") is a Gurage language spoken in central Ethiopia, mainly within the Gurage Zone in the

neg: Russian Synodal Bible The final editorship was performed by Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow. The translation of the Old Testament is based on the Jewish Masoretic Text, while that of the New Testament is based on the Greek printed editions of that time. This decision was grounded on Filaret's 1834 note "On the need of the Russian Church for a translation of the whole Bible from the original texts to the modern Russian language" and reflected the growing acceptance in the Russian theological community of the contemporary Western standards of Biblical scholarship of the time. Official permission to use the Masoretic Text as preserved

neg: Mikael Agricola expert in Greek, the original language of the New Testament. In Wittenberg Agricola studied under Luther. Agricola got recommendations to Swedish King Gustav Vasa from both of the reformists. He sent two letters to Gustav, asking for a confirmation for a stipend. When the confirmation came, Agricola bought books (for example, the complete works of Aristotle). In 1537 he started translating the New Testament into Finnish. In 1539 Agricola returned to Turku and ended up as the rector of Turku (Cathedral) School. He did not like his job, calling his students "untamed animals". At the time Gustav Vasa had confiscated

neg: Bible Museum Münster further with significant exhibits; furthermore, it is continuously augmented by changing items on loan from a private manuscript collector from Norway. In April 2010, the Bible Museum in Germany received the largest private collection of Bibles from collector Walter Remy. This classical language Bible collection includes 379 Latin, Greek and 16 200 multilingual Bibles from the 16th to the 18th century. Since the Bible Museum is part of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) which holds some original manuscripts of the New Testament, those manuscripts can be seen in the Bible Museum in Münster. Minuscules: 676, 798, 1432,

neg: Crawford Aramaic New Testament manuscript editions comprised the third and final section of the 1905 United Bible Societies Peshitta, still the standard scholarly edition today. Gwynn considered that this Aramaic Revelation was not from the original Peshitta version but one which Gwynn identified as being from what he called the Philoxenian Version, an Aramaic revision of the Syriac Bible made under the auspices of Philoxenus, bishop of Mabbug circa 507. Basing his opinion on the testimony of Moses of Aghel, Gwynn considered that Philoxenus' "chorepiscopus" Polycarpus made a new translation from the Greek New Testament of the missing books. The Aramaic manuscript contains some notable

neg: Bible translations into Cornish of the Cornish Language Board, and the Bishop of Truro’s Ecumenical Advisory Group for Cornish Language Services. The Cornish Bible is written in the Common Cornish spelling system. It has the ecumenical support of all members of Churches Together in Cornwall. In 2004 An Testament Nowydh (The New Testament) was published by Kesva an Taves Kernewek;. In July 2014 the New Testament and Psalms were posted on-line on YouVersion (Bible.com) and BibleSearch by the Bible Society. The Cornish Bible Project is currently working on completing the Old Testament, and reportedly twenty Old Testament books have been published so far.. The

neg: Luther Bible Luther Bible The Luther Bible () is a German language Bible translation from Hebrew and ancient Greek by Martin Luther. The New Testament was first published in 1522 and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments with Apocrypha, in 1534. It was the first full translation of the Bible into German based mainly on the original Hebrew and Greek texts and not the Latin Vulgate translation. The project absorbed Luther's later years. Thanks to the then recently invented printing press, the result was widely disseminated and contributed significantly to the development of today's modern High German language. While

neg: Neal Hefti top of the original arrangement; that it jells as well as it does is a tribute both to the flexible arrangement of Hefti and the inventive genius of Parker to adapt himself to any musical surrounding. In 1950, Hefti started arranging for Count Basie and what became known as "The New Testament" band. According to Hefti in a Billboard interview, Basie wanted to develop a stage band that could appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show". Although the New Testament band never became a show band in that sense, it was much more of an ensemble band than Basie's previous orchestras.

neg: Bible translations into Burmese Bible translations into Burmese There are many different translations of the Bible into Burmese (also known as the Myanmar language). Adoniram Judson made the first complete translation of the Bible from the original languages into Burmese, completed by . After this, he continued to revise it. He completed a revision of the Old Testament on , a revision of the New Testament on , and a revision of the entire bible, published in quarto format, on . Judson was a Baptist when he performed his translation work, and his Bible translation is considered by some to be associated with the

neg: Nicholas Williams out his own emended Unified Cornish (Unified Cornish Revised or UCR). Williams elaborated UCR in "Clappya Kernowek" (Agan Tavas, 1997) and in his "English-Cornish Dictionary" (Agan Tavas, 2000). Spyrys a Gernow published his "Testament Noweth", the first complete Cornish translation of the New Testament from the original Greek in 2002. He gave the O’Donnell lectures in Oxford in May 1998, when he spoke on consecutive days on Manx and then Cornish. This was the first time that an O’Donnell lecture had ever been devoted to the Cornish language. Among important articles by Williams Cornish one might include the following: "'Linguistically

neg: Bible translations into Oceanic languages in 1828. The rest of the New Testament was translated in 1832, the Old Testament was translated in 1839, and the translation was revised in 1868. The Bible was translated into the Māori language in the 19th century by missionaries sponsored by the Church Missionary Society. In 1826, the Rev. William Williams started work on the translation of the Bible into the Māori language. The Rev. Robert Maunsell worked with William Williams on the translation of the Bible. William Williams concentrated on the New Testament; Maunsell worked on the Old Testament, portions of which were published in 1827, 1833 and

neg: Bible translations in Norway Bible Society one. Despite its name, it was in the Danish language, and was very popular in Denmark until a new Danish revision was made in 1871. "The revision of Skaar" was a New Testament version published in 1873. The work was revised by the priest John Nilssøn Skaar. This version is known for a strongly Norwegianized language, taking it in a more idiomatic direction and focusing on the importance of the meaning of the original rather than the words themselves. "The Picture-Bible of the Norwegian People, Containing the Canonical Books of the Holy Scripture " was published privately in

neg: Westcott-Hort the wording in the Nestle / UBS text in favor of a particular variant reading, I would later check with the Westcott and Hort text and realize that they had often come to the same decision. (...) Of course, the manuscript discoveries of the past one hundred years have changed things, but it is remarkable how often they have affirmed the decisions of Westcott and Hort. The texts of Nestle-Aland, and of Bover and Merk, differ very little from the text of the Westcott-Hort. Westcott-Hort The New Testament in the Original Greek is a Greek-language version of the New Testament

neg: Sources for the historicity of Jesus to Origen, Celsus accused Jesus of being a magician and a sorcerer. While the statements of Celsus may be seen as valuable, they have little historical value, given that the wording of the original writings can not be examined. The Dead Sea Scrolls are first century or older writings that show the language and customs of some Jews of Jesus' time. Scholars such as Henry Chadwick see the similar uses of languages and viewpoints recorded in the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls as valuable in showing that the New Testament portrays the first century period that it reports

neg: History of the Cherokee language is online in the Cherokee Syllabary, and there is a Cherokee language Wikipedia featuring over 400 articles. Most Linux distributions support Cherokee input and display in any font containing the characters in Unicode environments. Windows 8, the first Windows release in Cherokee, contains "nearly 180,000 words and phrases" in Cherokee, and is the first Windows release in a Native American language. Beginning in 2001, the Cherokee Bible Project began posting the New Testament and portions of Old Testament Books on the internet. The New Testament is completely present online as are several Old Testament books including Genesis, Haggai, and Jonah.

neg: John Glas buried at The Howff in Dundee on 5 November 1773. The grave lies in the south west near a north-south path. The original sandstone monument eroded and was replaced by a long-lasting red granite monument around 1880. As Glas found inconsistencies with the Church of Scotland and what he found in the New Testament, he led a church movement during the first half of the 18th century which promoted the ideal that the church should be governed by the simple order in the New Testament rather than by human councils and synods. About thirty Churches of Christ were established in

neg: Philip Esler Scottish Enterprise Fife. From October 2010 to March 2013 he was Principal at St Mary’s University College Twickenham. He had an earlier career as a lawyer, working in Sydney during 1978-81 and 1984-92 as an articled clerk, then solicitor and barrister. Esler is a leading figure in the social-scientific interpretation of biblical texts, with an international reputation. He applies ideas and perspectives from disciplines such as social psychology, anthropology and sociology to Old and New Testament texts to gain a better sense of what they meant to their original audiences. He has also published in the areas of New Testament

neg: Weymouth New Testament Weymouth New Testament The Weymouth New Testament ("WNT"), otherwise known as The New Testament in Modern Speech or The Modern Speech New Testament, is a translation of the New Testament into nineteenth century English by Richard Francis Weymouth. It was based on the text of "The Resultant Greek Testament". The text was produced by Weymouth. It was what resulted from his compilation of readings from Stephens (1550), Lachmann, Tregelles, Tischendorf, Lightfoot, Ellicott, Alford, Weiss, the Bâle edition (1880), Westcott and Hort, and the Revision Committee of London. Where these editions differed, Weymouth selected the reading favoured by the majority of

neg: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures original texts in the Hebrew and Greek languages have become available. According to the publishers, better manuscript evidence had made it possible to determine with greater accuracy what the original writers intended, particularly in more obscure passages. They said linguists better understood certain aspects of the original Hebrew and Greek languages than previously. In October 1946, the president of the Watch Tower Society, Nathan H. Knorr, proposed a fresh translation of the New Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses usually refer to as the "Christian Greek Scriptures". Work began on December 2, 1947 when the "New World Bible Translation Committee" was formed,

neg: Faye Edgerton by the American Bible Society. It is the largest piece of Navajo literature, and became an instant bestseller among the tribe. This work also resulted in a revival of the Navajo language, that many had previously sought to extinguish. After translating the Navajo New Testament, Edgerton learned Apache, and together with Faith Hill translated the New Testament into the Apache language. The Apache New Testament was presented to President Johnson in 1966. Manuscripts and translation notes are held at Northern Arizona University. She also helped some with the Hopi and the Inupiat/Eskimo New Testaments. Faye Edgerton Faye Elva Edgerton (Navajo:

neg: Lutherhaus Eisenach George, patron saint of the city of Eisenach and Mansfeld, used the period of solitude and seclusion in Wartburg Castle to study the New Testament texts of the Bible intensively. When he was ambushed near Altenstein, he had quickly grabbed the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament. Luther initially used them to continue his exegesis of individual Bible passages before beginning his epochal labor: From mid-December 1521 onward, he translated the entire New Testament from the Greek into "German" in just eleven weeks. Since there was no standard German language in his day, Luther used the language of the

neg: Translation hypothetical original language can provide supporting evidence by showing that such characteristics as idioms, puns, peculiar grammatical structures, etc., are in fact derived from the original language. For example, the known text of the "Till Eulenspiegel" folk tales is in High German but contains puns that work only when back-translated to Low German. This seems clear evidence that these tales (or at least large portions of them) were originally written in Low German and translated into High German by an over-metaphrastic translator. Supporters of Aramaic primacy—of the view that the Christian New Testament or its sources were originally written in

neg: Davina Lopez of the individual's consciousness and a supposed anti-Jewish bias. Her feminist and queer approaches put forward gender and sexuality as useful options for seeing more adequately the hierarchical relations of power operative in the Roman Empire during Paul’s time. Her second book both re-evaluates and re-narrates the field of New Testament studies. Lopez and Penner attempt to explore the field, defamiliarize and interrogate it, and prod at its foundational assumptions. This results in an original contribution on what New Testament studies are, has been, and might yet be. Lopez provides a critical intervention into several methodological impasses in contemporary New

neg: Bible translations into the languages of Africa was translated into the Malagasy language by David Jones (missionary) and David Griffiths, with the New Testament appearing in 1830. Johann Ludwig Krapf translated into Mijikenda languages. Oromo is a language of Ethiopia and Kenya. The New Testament was published in 1893, the complete Bible in 1899, the work of Aster Ganno and Onesimos Nesib. A new translation of the entire Bible was published by the Ethiopian Bible Society in 1992. Martti Rautanen - Finnish Missionary Society, into Oshindonga dialect of the Ovambo language of Namibia. Gottlieb Viehe - German, into Otjiherero language of Namibia. Robert Moffat - Congregationalist, translated

neg: Progressive dispensationalism were not named as original participants. However, additional revelation came in Acts 9–10 concerning believing Gentiles where God (through Peter and Cornelius) formally accepted believing Gentiles as co-heirs with the Jews. In other words, God used additional New Testament revelation to further expand the participants of the new covenant to include believing Gentiles. God did not replace the original recipients or change the original meaning of the new covenant, He simply expanded it. This expansion of meaning while keeping the original intact is what is called complementary hermeneutics. Charles Ryrie had also laid less stress on the parenthetical nature of

neg: Cwm Rhondda "Lord", in all its senses. It appears in the Old Testament to translate Hebrew words which are a paraphrase of the Divine Name (the tetragrammaton), and in the New Testament to translate κύριος (kyrios), the standard honorific for Jesus Christ. Accordingly, Peter Williams translated it as Jehovah in accord with the practice of his time. Many English-language hymnals today translate it as "Redeemer". The following version of the original is taken from "Gwaith Pantycelyn" (The Works of Pantycelyn). All but the second verse is given, with minor variations, in the Welsh Hymnbook of the Calvinist and Wesleyan Methodists, published by

neg: Language of Jesus by mainstream Biblical scholarship. Traditionally, parts of the Church of the East (Nestorian church) have also claimed originality for the Aramaic New Testament, but it is considered by scholars to be a translation from Greek. Instead, the consensus among mainstream academia is that although it is possible that there may be Aramaic source materials that underpin some portions of the New Testament, the New Testament was compiled and redacted in the Greek language. Scholars are also in agreement that there was at one time an early Aramaic/Hebrew version of a Jewish-Christian gospel, but its relation to the Greek gospels is

neg: Sacred Name Bible a Semitic language, not clearly differentiating between Syriac and Aramaic. However, despite his adherence to a Semitic original of the New Testament, Lamsa translated using the English word "Lord" instead of a Hebraic form of the divine name. Sacred Name Bibles are not used frequently within Christianity, or Judaism. Only a few translations replace "Jesus" with Semitic forms such as "Yeshua" or "Yahshua". Most English Bible translations translate the tetragrammaton with "" where it occurs in the Old Testament rather than use a transliteration into English. This pattern is followed in languages around the world, as translators have translated sacred

neg: Gothic Bible fragments of the Wulfila Bible consist of codices from the 6th to 8th century containing a large part of the New Testament and some parts of the Old Testament, largely written in Italy. These are: During the third century, the Goths lived on the northeast border of the Roman Empire, in what is now Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania. During the fourth century, the Goths were converted to Christianity, largely through the efforts of Bishop Wulfila, who is believed to have invented the Gothic alphabet. The translation of the Bible into the Gothic language is thought to have been performed in

neg: Muratorian fragment to the people in church either among the Prophets, whose number is complete, or among the Apostles, for it is after their time.The document contains a list of the books of the New Testament, a similar list concerning the Old Testament having apparently preceded it. It is in barbarous Latin which has probably been translated from original Greek—the language prevailing in Christian Rome until c. 200. A few scholars have also dated it as late as the 4th century, but their arguments have not won widespread acceptance in the scholarly community. For more detail, see the article in the "Anchor

neg: Latgalian language tradition; first newspapers, textbooks and grammars appeared. In 1918 Latgale became part of the newly created Latvian state. From 1920 to 1934 the two literary traditions of Latvians developed in parallel. A notable achievement during this period was the original translation of the New Testament into Latgalian by the priest and scholar Aloizijs Broks, published in Aglona in 1933. After the coup staged by Kārlis Ulmanis in 1934, the subject of the Latgalian dialect was removed from the school curriculum and was invalidated for use in state institutions; this was as part of an effort to standardize Latvian language usage.

neg: Bible translations into the languages of Russia in 2005, the complete New Testament in September 2008, and Genesis in 2011. Work on the Old Testament continues. N. Bobnikrov supervised a translation of the four gospels into Bashkir. This was published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1902. The Institute for Bible Translation is currently working on a new translation. The New Testament is almost ready to be published. A new translation into the Chuvash language was initiated by the Russian Bible Society in the 1990s, coordinating New Testament translation carried out by the Baptist churches and the Old Testament translation carried out by the Russian

neg: Bible translations into Native South American languages scripture are amenable to having some or part of the work copied and distributed without formal permission from the original publisher. An 18cm x 13cm booklet -- 8 color maps of the "ancient biblical world" with index of place names -- is inserted and bound into the book after the final printed page (p740). 1987 Old and New Testament. 1947 New Testament, 1988 and 2004 Old and New Testament 2006 New Testament 1922 New Testament, 1993, 1997 and 2004 Old and New Testament 2004 New Testament 2004 New Testament 1997 Old and New Testament 2011 Old and New Testament 1954

neg: Bible translations into Turkmen Bible translations into Turkmen A translation of the Gospel of Matthew was made in the 19th century. This was in Arabic script and was probably not widely distributed. IBT has published both the New Testament and several Old Testament books in the Turkmen language, as well as a more recent complete translation of the Bible. The first recent publication was in 1994 and was of the New Testament (the 'Injil'), Psalms ('Zebur') and Proverbs (Suleyman's Tymsals) in one hardback volume. This edition was presented to the Language and Literature department of the Academy of Sciences in Ashgabat in November 1995

neg: Bible translations into Athabaskan languages Siemens, and perhaps others) was headed by Jaap Feenstra of Wycliffe Bible Translators. The complete New Testament in Dogrib (Nǫhtsı̨ Nı̨htł'è, Zezì wegǫ̀hlı̨ tł'axǫǫ̀) was dedicated on August 23, 2003 in Rae, Northwest Territories. The first portions of the Bible available in Gwich'in language (Athabaskan language family) of Canada was the Gospels and 1-3 John. This was translated by Archdeacon Robert McDonald of the Church Missionary Society in 1874. The whole New Testament, also McDonald's translation, was printed in 1884. In 1886, he proceeded with the Old Testament. A small edition of Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus was published in 1890

neg: Garhwali language were the copies of the ancient texts, however, few original works related to history, poetry, religion, and architecture are also said to exist. It was only in the 20th century, due to the influence of English language, modern literary forms and themes were adopted. This literature was written both in Hindi and Garhwali. The oldest manuscript in Garhwali that has been found is a poem named "Ranch Judya Judige Ghimsaan Ji" written by Pt. Jayadev Bahuguna (16th century). In 1828 AD, Maharaja Sudarshan Shah wrote "Sabhaasaar". In 1830 AD, American missionaries published the New Testament in Garhwali. The Gospel of

neg: Yolmo language with Chhegu Lama, and a sketch grammar. Hari's also translated the New Testament of the Bible into Yolmo. Original cassette recordings of her work have been digitised and archived with PARADISEC. Unless otherwise stated, all discussion of the grammar of Yolmo on this page is drawn from the work on Melamchi Valley Yolmo. Northwest of the Yolmo-speaking areas in the Langtang valley of the Rasuwa District are three villages that speak a language that is mutually intelligible with Yolmo. This language also shares features with Kyirong and is likely part of a dialect continuum between Yolmo and Kyirong. Lamjung Yolmo

neg: Christian demonology that demons exist in the literal sense. There is the view that the New Testament language of exorcism is an example of the language of the day being employed to describe the healings of what today would be classified as epilepsy, mental illness etc. Christian demonology Christian demonology is the study of demons from a Christian point of view. It is primarily based on the Bible (Old and New Testaments), the exegesis of these scriptures, the scriptures of early Christian philosophers, hermits and the associated traditions and legends incorporated from other beliefs. In some Christian traditions, the deities of other

neg: Corporate election used throughout the Old Testament as a collective term for Israel. The writers of the Old Testament used these various terms because they conceived Israel as a people, a corporate entity. Supporters of the corporate view of election point to the New Testament language that explicitly discusses election, which they say is always corporate. Abasciano says "one will look in vain for an overt use of the language of election unto salvation in reference to an individual." Klein concluded, "Our study of the New Testament documents demands that we view election to salvation corporately. We found in the synoptics, John,

neg: Douglas R. A. Hare original Biblical Codex and manuscripts from around the world. Hare's academic positions are numerous and include Teaching Fellow, at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; Director of Continuing Education; Instructor in New Testament; Assistant Professor of New Testament; Associate Professor of New Testament; Full Professor of New Testament; Installed as first incumbent of the William F. Orr Chair in New Testament, he was named William F. Orr Professor of New Testament Emeritus upon his retirement. Hare graduated in 1951 with a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto (Honors Philosophy and English); 1954 M.Div, from Emmanuel College, Victoria University, Toronto, where he was

neg: Johannes Hendricus van der Palm suspicion, evil speaking, rash judging. The individual books of the Bible originally arrived in written form in ancient languages, Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic in the case of the Old Testament, and for the New Testament Koinē Greek. By modern times, it has been translated into almost every language in the world. In most cases, translations have been made from texts other than those in which they originally appeared. Only a minority have been undertaken using ancient sources in the original languages as sources. Along with working from these source texts, modern biblical translators have followed the insight of related disciplines

neg: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image "will not inherit the kingdom of God", and in the same passage associates witchcraft with idolatry. In his letter to the Philippians, he refers to those whose "god is their stomach". In several New Testament scriptures, including the Sermon on the Mount, the term idolatry is applied to the love of money. The apostle James rebukes those who focus on material things, using language similar to that of Old Testament prophets: "When you ask [in prayer], you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don't

neg: Bible translations in Norway was translated by Blix and psalms 52-150 by Hognestad. The following year there was an edition that contained both the Psalms and the New Testament, before "the Illustrated New Testament" was published in 1908. Alexander Seippel, who had initiated work on the first complete translation of the Bible into Norwegian, began to translate the Old Testament. Seippel used a vibrant and popular language, and said that the language would be "above all down-to-earth... I would never write a sentence unless I knew that a Norwegian farmer could say it." (Rough translation) As Seippel's work progressed, the biblical books were published

neg: Mary B. Moser Pública (Mexico's department of education), they prepared the first materials to be used to teach Seri children and adults how to read and write their language. They did meticulous documentation of the culture during the years between 1951 and 1976 while at the same time preparing a translation of the New Testament into the language. Edward's unexpected and premature death in 1976 put the job of finishing various projects, including the translation, into Mary's hands. The New Testament was published in 1982. She completed an Old Testament summary in 1986. During these years a primary co-worker was Roberto Herrera Marcos,

neg: Aramaic New Testament Testament (particularly the Gospel of Matthew and Gospel of Mark) may have had Aramaic source texts which are no longer extant. The most noteworthy advocate of the "Peshitta-original" hypothesis in the West was George Lamsa of the Aramaic Bible Center. A tiny minority of more recent scholars are backers of the Peshitta-original theory today, whereas the overwhelming majority of scholars consider the Peshitta New Testament to be a translation from a Greek original. For instance the noted Assyriologist Sebastian Brock wrote: Some advocates of the "Peshitta-original" theory also use the term "Aramaic primacy", though this is not used in academic

neg: Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ The Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ is an early Welsh translation of the New Testement. The translation was published by William Salesbury on the 7th of October, 1567. Salesbury used scholarly vocabulary rather than everyday language in his Testament, and altered the spelling of Welsh words in order to make them appear more similar to Latin. His translation is an important milestone in the history of Welsh publishing and provided the people of Wales with the Scriptures in their own language for the first time. It was also the basis for William Morgan's

neg: Bible translations into the languages of Africa Lebombo, translated into Tshopi. "Malangano Ga Sambano" is the New Testament in the Ciyawo language (Chiyao, Chiyawo). It is published by the Bible Society of Malawi (2011) British Anglican Thomas John Dennis translated the Bible into a "standard" "Union Igbo" by 1913. This version was very influential but criticised by artists, among them Chinua Achebe, as stultifying the Igbo language. The Igbo Living Bible was published in 1988. Johann Heinrich Schmelen translated into the Khoekhoe language (formerly "Hottentot") of the Nama people of Namibia. Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German, translated parts of the New Testament into Kamba language. The Bible

neg: Restoration (Latter Day Saints) important doctrines and rites were lost or corrupted. Latter-day Saints specifically reject the early ecumenical councils for what they see as misguided human attempts to decide matters of doctrine without divine assistance, substituting debate and politics for divine revelation. Latter-day Saints have said that various Old Testament and New Testament scriptures, including teachings of Christ himself, prophesy of this "falling away" or "apostasy." Thus, Latter-day Saints refer to the "restitution of all things" mentioned in and claim that a restoration of all the original and primary doctrines and rites of Christianity was necessary. Adherents believe that important historical events such

neg: Novum Instrumentum omne Testament in circulation. In his dedication to Pope Leo X, Erasmus says: I perceived that that teaching which is our salvation was to be had in a much purer and more lively form if sought at the fountain-head and drawn from the actual sources than from pools and runnels. And so I have revised the whole New Testament (as they call it) against the standard of the Greek original... I have added annotations of my own, in order in the first place to show the reader what changes I have made, and why; second, to disentangle and explain anything that

neg: Zaramo language except for a few native speakers' documented translations, and the publication of the New Testament from 1975. Zaramo is genetically tied to the Niger-Congo language family. It is classified under the Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, G, and Zigula-Zaramo families. (G.33) Zaramo is the official language of a Bantu tribe located in the coastal area surrounding the former capital city of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam. Linguistic evidence supports the theory that Zaramo originated from the Luguru tribe. A migration of the Zaramo people eastward from their original location in Tanzania has been the source of slight changes