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The recruiting drive was led by John Dick, a recruiting agent for settlers in the New World. The British government agreed to provide free passage to the colony, free land, and one year of rations upon arrival. Over 2,000 of the "Foreign Protestants" arrived between 1750 and 1752, in 12 ships: [1] [2] Alderney (1750) Nancy (1750) Ann (1750 ...
Many years later, the Geneva Bible was exchanged for the King James Version of 1611, which was more acceptable to the King. [12] Once the Geneva Bible was finished, Gilby finally returned to England in May 1560 and his masterpiece was published only a few weeks later. Gilby is accredited with supervising the translation and writing the annotations.
Protestant communities in many European countries (such as Croatia and Albania) date back to the work of nineteenth-century BFBS Bible salesmen. Auxiliary branches were set up all over the world, which later became Bible Societies in their own right, and today operate in co-operation as part of the United Bible Societies .
A Protestant Bible is a Christian Bible whose translation or revision was produced by Protestant Christians. Typically translated into a vernacular language, such Bibles comprise 39 books of the Old Testament (according to the Hebrew Bible canon , known especially to non-Protestant Christians as the protocanonical books ) and 27 books of the ...
The Bible is the most translated book in the world, with more translations (including an increasing number of sign languages) being produced annually. Many are translated and published with the aid of a global fellowship of around 150 Bible Societies which collectively form The United Bible Societies.
American Bible Society launched a new Bible Search tool, an ad-free web engine that searches across ten translations of the Bible and targets the "Bible curious" and Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believers. Also in 2010, American Bible Society launched the Bible-based Trauma Healing ministry in a war zone in East Africa.
The translation of the Bible by Kulish, Puluj, and Nechuy-Levytskyi has 66 books: 39 - the Old Testament and 27 - the New Testament, that is, it is a Protestant version of the translation. This is due to the fact that financial support for the translation, printing, and partial distribution was carried out by the British Bible Society , which ...
The Open English Bible (OEB) is a freely redistributable modern translation based on the Twentieth Century New Testament translation. A work in progress, with its first publication in August 2010, the OEB is edited and distributed by Russell Allen.