Bible Translation

Erasmus & the Final Verses of Revelation

Jeffrey Stivason
Jul 31, 2024
Let me begin by establishing the parameters of this little article. It is not an attack on the Textus Receptus or the Majority text from which the TR emerged. This article takes up a very specific historical issue, which can be summarized in a question. Did Erasmus back translate the last five...
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Mission: Translation

Mortification of Spin
May 11, 2022
Carl welcomes a rare participant into today’s discussion: a former student still willing to acknowledge the experience! Kyle Davis is an American serving in South Africa as the Bible Translation Fellowship executive director. Kyle asserts that there are over 7300 languages in the world, yet a...
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Mortification of Spin

Onesimos Nesib, Aster Ganno, and the Oromo Translating Team

Simonetta Carr
Jan 19, 2021
Onesimos Nesib, Aster Ganno, and the Oromo Translating Team In my last post, I wrote about Pauline Fathme, Christian Rufo, and their efforts to bring the gospel to Ethiopia. Rufo worked with the German Johann Ludwig Krapf to translate portions of the Bible into the language of the Oromo, which at...

William Shedd and the Genocide of Assyrian Christians

Simonetta Carr
Oct 14, 2020
William Shedd and the Genocide of Assyrian Christians William Ambrose Shedd was born January 24, 1865, in the mountain village of Seir, near Urmia, in today’s Northwestern Iran, near Turkey. About one quarter of the population at that time was Assyrian, and predominantly Christian. According to...

In Pursuit of a Faithful Witness

SSeaton
Nov 11, 2011
Editor's Note: We welcome the Rev. Scott Seaton, an ordained minister in the PCA, to introduce our readers to an issue that is fast becoming a major topic in mission boards, denominations, and among those on the mission field. For background articles, click here , here , and here . "And a voice...

In Pursuit of a Faithful Witness

SSeaton
Nov 11, 2011
Editor's Note: We welcome the Rev. Scott Seaton, an ordained minister in the PCA, to introduce our readers to an issue that is fast becoming a major topic in mission boards, denominations, and among those on the mission field. For background articles, click here , here , and here . "And a voice...