“I guess I missed my calling,” said Ryder, a retired English literature professor. “I should have been in law enforcement.” The German-language Bible was in bad shape, destined for the ...

The first volume of a new German translation of the Bible will be the third publication this year of the Jewish Book Union (Juedische Buch-Vereinigung) organized by the Reichsvertretung der ...

The Vatican effort also has caused tensions in the English- speaking world ... local languages in the 1960s. German Catholics and Protestants produced a common Bible translation in the 1980s ...

Since Cambridge and Oxford were given exclusive rights to print an English-language Bible in the British Empire, it was once again a German-language Bible that was the first vernacular Bible ...

The Hutterites don’t begin to teach their children English until the age of 6. They run private schools until the eighth grade. Persons interested in donating German Bibles and hymnals are asked ...

The Lutheran Bible, written in German Gothic script and containing the handwritten dates of births, deaths and marriages for seven generations of Tim Shier's family, went missing in the burglary ...

Raban Maur had translated the entire Bible into Teutonic, or old German, in the late 8th century ... The preface of the King James 1611 English translation of the Bible describes the long ...

He may not be a founder of early New High German, but he and his Bible translation shaped countless literary genres. English translations of parts of the Bible had been in existence since the 7th ...

“I guess I missed my calling,” said Ryder, a retired English literature professor. “I should have been in law enforcement.” The German-language Bible was in bad shape, destined for the ...