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Will New Guidelines Solve Wycliffe's Two-Year Bible Translation Controversy?

Updated best practices point the way forward for missionary-Muslim interactions.

Knowing What the Bible 'Really' Means

Why multiple translations might even be better than Scripture in its original languages.

The Gospel Hand-Off

After a setback due to illness, one missionary couple had to give their ministry away. Why they're happy about it.

Fifty Shades of the Good Book

Erotica fans aren't the only beneficiaries of private digital consumption.

The Problem 'Son': Debate Continues Over Translating 'Son of God' for Muslims

Wycliffe translations challenged by Assemblies of God.

Wycliffe, SIL Issue Guidelines on Translating 'Son of God' Among Muslims

The term 'Son of God' should be retained, but not at the expense of comprehension, translating groups say.

Battle for the Bible Translation

Our movement is wide enough to include a variety of methods.

Remembering Eugene Nida

Bible translators discuss the legacy of the scholar who promoted dynamic equivalence theory.

Eugene Nida, Who Revolutionized Bible Translations, Dead at 96

His "dynamic equivalence" approach is used by many modern versions.

Gender Debate: SBC Pastors Denounce NIV

Southern Baptist delegates passed a resolution criticizing the 2011 update and asked LifeWay stores not to sell the Bible translation.

YouVersion's Volunteer Army

With more than 22 million users on mobile platforms, and millions more on its website, it has unusual success in creating a massive participatory system like Wikipedia or YouTube.

King James Goes to the Movies

Two documentaries look at the making of the KJV.

People of the Nook

What Bible smartphone apps tell us about the Book.

Shakespeare, Aesop, or King James?

Which of the following phrases are from the King James Version?

A World Without the King James Version

Where we would be without the most popular English Bible ever.

The Son and the Crescent

Bible translations that avoid the phrase "Son of God" are bearing dramatic fruit among Muslims. But that translation has some missionaries and scholars dismayed.

That Hideous Bible? C.S. Lewis Bible Kicks Up Gender Protest

A petition suggests that the New Revised Standard Version would be at odds with C.S. Lewis’s convictions.

Good News Glut

Common English Bible joins the crowd.

Audio Bibles Propel Scripture into Remote Regions

Technological advances are delivering Scripture across the globe.

What's in a Name?

Christians in Southeast Asia debate their right to refer to God as Allah.

Year of the Study Bible

Christian publishers struck the right chord in 2008.

Meager Harvest

The Green Bible promises to grow our understanding of creation care. Unfortunately, its results don't satisfy.

Smuggling Debate

Ministries disagree on how best to provide Bibles to Chinese Christians.

36,000 Are Writing the Bible, One Verse at a Time

Bible Across America tour will produce two handwritten copies.

When a Professor of Aramaic Meets Hollywood  Subscriber access only

You get asked some pretty strange things when you speak the language of Jesus.

Translation Tiff

Some Jamaicans aren't eager to see a Bible in the country's majority language.

Q&A: Daniel B. Wallace

On his organization's ancient New Testament manuscript haul in Albania.

Is 'Let Him Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Stone' Biblical?

Scholars are cautious about the story of the woman caught in adultery.

A Very Grown-up Children's Bible

The Jesus Storybook Bible is as theological as it is charming.

The Bible in Brush & Stroke  Subscriber access only

Medieval and modern join forces in the Saint John's Bible.

Scrambling for Bibles

The world may have moved in next door, but non-English Scriptures remain frustratingly hard to find.

Window into the Bible's Land  Subscriber access only

The Holman Illustrated Study Bible focuses on the "fifth gospel."

Revisiting a Non-Standard Scholar

Bruce Metzger devoted his life to helping us know early Christianity and its manuscripts better.

New Testament Scholar Bruce Metzger Dies at 93

Author, editor, and translator headed work on RSV, NRSV Bibles.

Familiar Word

Famous black voices eagerly join audio Bible project.

Estranged Bedfellows  Subscriber access only

Besides Jesus, what drove Jews and Christians apart from the beginning?

The Whole Word for the Whole World  Subscriber access only

Fewer than 10 percent of the world's languages have the Old Testament. But that's about to change.

Word Made Brash  Subscriber access only

New Scripture adaptations are not your father's comic books.

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