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Kayan Bible (1990) A translation of the Bible into Kayan, Baram language (Ethnologue: kys) spoken by the Kayan people of Sarawak has been available since 1990 and was first published by the Bible Society of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. Work is on-going for a revision of the Bible in the Kayan language.
The most widespread translation used by Indonesian right now is Terjemahan Baru (1985), or "New Translation" published by LAI ("Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia" or Indonesian Bible Society). Gottlob Brückner (1783–1857) translated the Bible into Javanese, the largest local language of Indonesia, in 1820 [5]
The Lembaga Alkitab Indonesia (Indonesian Bible Society) was established in 1950 and republished Bode's New Testament together with Klinkert's Old Testament in a single volume known today as the Alkitab Terjemahan Lama (The Old Translation Bible) as a stop-gap measure until a new translation could be prepared. This was the last Malay Bible that ...
Pages in category "Translators of the Bible into the languages of Indonesia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Psalm 119 is one of about a dozen alphabetic acrostic poems in the Bible. Its 176 verses are divided into twenty-two stanzas, one stanza for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet; within each stanza, each of the eight verses begins (in Hebrew) with that letter. [18] The name of God (Yahweh/Jehovah) appears twenty-four times.
Pieter Jansz with his assistant in translating the Bible into the Javanese language Pieter Jansz (September 25, 1820 - June 6, 1904) was the first Dutch Mennonite missionary in Indonesia. He arrived in Central Java in 1851 and began his missionary work.
Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]
Nature poetry, in addition, bore witness to the romantic nature of this movement, with titles such as Sawah ("Rice Fields") or Bintang ("Stars"). [ 24 ] A third aspect involved mysticism, Sanusi Pane 's poem Do'a ("Prayer") perhaps the best-known instance, with its opening stanza: [ 25 ]