500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published – and stirred up a hornet’s nest

In 1526, books appeared in England that no one had seen before: printed New Testaments in the English language. The public ...
The Jackson Sun

Early Bible translations — matters of life and death

Early monasteries permitted monks to translate portions of the Bible into their own languages for personal devotion. But when scholars outside the monasteries began translating the Bible into English, ...
The Christian Century

Biographies of the Book

Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. By Benson Bobrick. Simon & Shuster, 379 pp., $26.00. In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It ...
The Denver Post

Bible translators hope to have every language covered in 15 years

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Christian endeavor of almost 2,000 years could be substantially completed by 2025. Protestant translators expect to have the Bible — or at least some of it ...
The Conversation

How I tracked down the Frenchman who helped translate the King James Bible (and who didn’t speak English)

The King James Bible, often referred to as the “authorised version”, is one of the most widely read and influential books in history. Published for the first time in 1611 at the behest of King James I ...