A Charles Brammall Column As a leader (or a study-writing member) of your home group, try to write questions in your study that lead to the “Biblical Theology” of the passage/topic. “Biblical Theology” is different from “Systematic Theology”. It asks,… Continue Reading
I don’t know about you, but I grew up afraid of the Book of Revelation. Maybe it was the complicated explanations of the end times at my local church. It seemed esoterica nad complicated. I was afraid I was not… Continue Reading
Matthew 2 in the Plain English Version, a new Australian translation in English for aboriginal readers for whom English is a second third or fourth language Some wise men came to Jesus Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Judea country. At that time, the big boss over that country was called Herod. There were some wise men in a country to the east of Judea. They always looked at the stars, and one night they saw a special star in the sky. So they went west to Jerusalem, the city in Judea country. 2 They asked the Jerusalem people, “Where was that baby born that is going to be the big boss over you Jewish people? You see,… Continue Reading
It seems as though Matthew and Luke have taken turns providing pieces of a Christmas jigsaw puzzle. Luke gives us the shepherds and Matthew, the wise men. Mary meets the Archangel Gabriel in Luke; Joseph encounters a reassuring angel in… Continue Reading
A very different Bible – the Plain English Version (PEV) – is indigenous in two significant ways. It has been translated in Australia from the original languages – all other Australian English language bibles are based on translations from the… Continue Reading
Jon Here of the “SellingJesus” site, gives a run down on the restrictions imposed by copyright holders of Bible versions. Let’s imagine that your pastor gets up one Sunday morning and announces: “If anyone wants to share passages from… Continue Reading
By Anne Stych The artificial intelligence arm of Facebook parent company Meta has turned to widely translated religious texts like the Bible to provide data for its Massively Multilingual Speech project, which aims to expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology to… Continue Reading
A secular university might not be the place you expect to help Bible Translation, but a group at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is building a set of tools to do just that. They call it… Continue Reading
The Other Cheek interviewed Translation Consultant Sam Freney about how the Bible Society is increasingly producing audio Bibles into their work alongside Aboriginal Communities. Traditionally the Bible Society focussed on publishing printed Bibles for Aboriginal communities, but recordings are now… Continue Reading
A guest column by Ek Liljgren from Chinchilla, Queensland “Do not judge,” right, that is what I hear often. This is one of the most quotable and yet misquoted parts of Scripture The Bible does not say, “Do not judge”… Continue Reading