Who translated the Bible from Greek to English?
William Tyndale
William Tyndale (1494?-1536), who first translated the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew text, is one such forgotten pioneer.
What is the Greek translation of Bible?
Septuagint, abbreviation LXX, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. The Septuagint was presumably made for the Jewish community in Egypt when Greek was the common language throughout the region.
Is there a Greek Bible in English?
Featuring the complete Hebrew and Greek texts with a direct English rendering below each word, it also includes a literal translation of the Bible in the outside column. The four-volume Interlinear Bible uses 7-point text.
What is the most original Bible Translation?
The English Bible Translation
The English Bible Translation is known as the most accurate Bible version due to large number of excellent translations. (See also List of English Bible translations.)
What is the most accurate translation of the Bible in English?
Almost all scholars agree that the New American Standard Bible (NASB) gets the crown for being the most accurate English Bible translation.
What is the original Greek Bible?
The first known translation of the Bible into Greek is called the Septuagint (LXX; 3rd–1st centuries BC). The LXX was written in Koine Greek. It was widely disseminated among ancient Hellenistic Jews, and was later used by Greek-speaking Christians for their Old Testament (refer canon).
Which Bible translation uses the Septuagint?
The New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included under That Title (NETS) is a modern translation of the Septuagint (LXX), that is the scriptures used by Greek-speaking Christians and Jews of antiquity.
Who translated the Bible from Greek and Hebrew?
The intention of St Jerome, translating into Latin the Hebrew of the Old Testament and the Greek of the New Testament, was that ordinary Christians of the Roman empire should be able to read the word of God. ‘Ignorance of the scriptures’, he wrote, ‘is ignorance of Christ’.
Is Hebrew older than Greek?
The Greek language is the oldest language in Europe, spoken since 1450 years before Christ. The Hebrew language is about 3000 years old.