All Bible Translations

Bible Translations, in the canon-division sense used here, is the recognized category of historic renderings of biblical text into a receiving language rather than the base Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek originals, each shaped by the translator's own textual sources, audience and theological setting. The Septuagint is the pre-Christian Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made for the Greek-speaking Jewish community of Alexandria and later adopted as scripture by the early church. The Vulgate is Jerome's late fourth-century Latin translation, produced largely from Hebrew and Greek sources at the commission of Pope Damasus I, that became the standard biblical text of the Latin church for over a thousand years. The Peshitta is the classical Syriac translation used by Syriac Christian churches from at least the early fifth century. The King James Version is the 1611 English translation commissioned by James I of England, produced by teams of Church of England scholars and enormously influential on English-language religious and literary style. The Gothic Bible is Bishop Ulfilas's fourth-century translation into Gothic, the oldest substantial text in a Germanic language. Each stands as its own historically documented act of biblical translation rather than an original composition.