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
Simon Camilleri is so keen on memorising the Bible and speaking it, or reading it aloud ,that he uses a really unusual metaphor. “There is something so wonderful about committing God’s word to heart and letting it soak in you… Continue Reading
Headline speakers anti-slavery campaigner Christine Caine and technology and culture author Andy Crouch demonstrated how Christians can rely on Scripture at the first Bible conference run by Bible Society Australia (BSA). The conference is anticipated to become an annual event.… Continue Reading