The Roman Catholic Church did have an official Bible translation—the Latin Vulgate, first translated by the Church father Jerome in 405 CE—which it upheld as the exclusive Latin authority for the ...
British lawyer George Sale was the first man to conduct a direct English translation of the Quran. His 1733 translation contained notes and an interpretation of Muslims’ manners and laws.
A rare Chinese Bible donated to an Oxfam shop in England has sold at auction for over $72,000 (£56,280), far surpassing its ...
The first full edition of the Geneva Bible came out in 1560 ... who convened a committee of scholars to begin working on a new English translation. What became known as the King James, or ...