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In the Hebrew Bible, those who practice lying and deceit are seemingly rewarded for their actions, posing problems for an exegesis that upholds a categorical prohibition. [6] Examples include the Hebrew midwives who lie after Pharaoh commands them to kill all newborn boys ( Exodus 1 :17–21), and Rahab ( Joshua 2 :1–7; cf. Hebrews 11 :31 ...
Jost Oliver Zetzsche (born in Hamburg, Germany) is a German–American English translator, sinologist and writer who lives in Oregon. [1] Since 2016 he has been the curator of United Bible Societies' online Translation Insights and Perspectives (TIPs) tool.
The English-Chinese Bible: New Revised Standard Version and Chinese Union Version with simplified Chinese characters (printed by Amity Printing Company and published by China Christian Council) Because of the old-style and ad hoc punctuation, the CUV looks archaic and somewhat strange to the modern reader.
The New Testament was first published in 1975, and the entire Bible was published in 1979. The Bible uses simple, easy to read Chinese, and avoids complex and specialist terminology. The New York Times, apparently unaware of the Studium Biblicum Version or the translation by Lü Chen Chung , hailed it as the first Mandarin translation of the ...
Isobel Miller Kuhn also worked on the translation. The New Testament was finished in 1938, and the complete Bible in 1968. The Trinitarian Bible Society completed a translation in 1980, with some light revisions having been made in the later part of that decade. [2] An annotated Bible in Lisu was completed in 2013 from the United Bible ...
A simplified Chinese Bible along with Pinyin, text rendered in the Roman alphabet, was published in 2004. On July 5, 2019 Jehovah's Witnesses released the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in Chinese Traditional and Simplified at a regional convention at the National Taiwan Sport University Stadium in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
The Chinese New Living Translation (新普及译本 Xin puji yiben) is a dynamic equivalent Chinese New Testament translation published in paperback in Hong Kong by Chinese Bible International (汉语圣经协会 Hanyu Shengjing Xiehui) in 2004 and revised in 2006.
Translation originally started in 1935 as a personal effort by a Franciscan Friar, the Blessed Gabriele Allegra, but translation work was halted due to World War II, and part of the finished translations were lost due to the war. The bible society was formed in 1945 when more translators joined the translation work, and the whole bible was ...