“St. Jerome,” from the workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele. (Erik Cornelius/Sweden Nationalmuseum, via Wikimedia) St. Jerome, whose feast day is Sept. 30, is a giant in the intellectual history of ...

The King James Bible, the most famous version of the world’s most influential book, was published on this day in history, May 2, 1611. "The King James, or Authorized, Version of the Bible remains the ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...

“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...

St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate is the most influential Bible translation in the history of western Christendom. As a translation, it’s been astoundingly important — even more than the King James Version.

The oldest known translation of any part of the Bible into German — strictly, into Old High German — was done between the mid-eighth and the early ninth centuries at Mondsee Abbey, in today’s Upper ...