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Working together with Scottish missionaries Turnbull and Kilgour, Pradhan completed a New Testament translation in 1902 and the first Old Testament in 1914. The publication of this Old Testament marked the first time the complete Bible was available in Nepali, but by the 1950s there were apparently fewer than 10 copies of the Old Testament ...
According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible. It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be ...
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.As of November 2024 the whole Bible has been translated into 756 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,726 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,274 other languages according to Wycliffe Global Alliance.
Ganga Prasad Pradhan (Newar: गंगा प्रसाद प्रधान; Pronunciation ⓘ) was born on July 4, 1851, in Kathmandu and was the first ordained Nepali Christian pastor, main translator of the Nepali Bible, co-author of an English-Nepali dictionary and author of children's textbooks.
The New Testament in the Bhili language, titled 'Sarvoccha Parameshwar', was published in 2012 by P.T. Thomas. He began working on the translation in the early 1990s, while living in Jhabua. As of 2024, the translation of the Old Testament and the complete Bhili Bible is in its final stages of preparation for publication. [16]
The Sahidic translation was quite free, while the Bohairic translation was very slavish, tending to translate every word, even using grammatical borrowings. 52 manuscripts are bilingual and they contain – in addition to the Coptic text-type – the Greek text-type; 2 manuscripts are trilingual and they contain the following text-types: Greek ...
[9] [10] The first complete editions of the New Testament, and the revisions, were published at the expense of the British and Foreign Bible Society. [11] The Rev. William Williams and Rev. T. W. Meller M.A., the Editorial Superintendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, worked to revise the translation of the New Testament. [11]
The word testament in the expression "New Testament" refers to a Christian new covenant that Christians believe completes or fulfils the Mosaic covenant (the Jewish covenant) that Yahweh (the God of Israel) made with the people of Israel on Mount Sinai through Moses, described in the books of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [6]