Two brothers, Cyril and Methodius volunteered to translate the Gospels, the psalter, as well as Paul’s letters into the language of the people. Their missionary work continued for over 16 years, including developing the Cyrillic alphabet still in use today, allowing them to make the Bible translation that ultimately spread throughout the Slavic nations!
Casiodoro de Reina was a Lutheran theologian and his translation was the first complete Bible to be printed in Spanish. And interestingly, first published in Basel, Switzerland! The Reina-Valera Bible today has become the common Bible of millions of Spanish-speaking protestants around the world.
St. Jerome spent 30 years in what would today be called a “basement” of the Church of the Nativity—editing and correcting the Old Latin manuscripts of the Bible—now known as the Vulgate—the Bible of the western church for 1000 years. For hundreds of years, Jerome’s version was the only Bible in u...
The Christopher Saur family printed three versions of Martin Luther’s German Bible—all three a first: In 1743 the first European-language Bible in America. In 1763, the first Bible printed on American-made paper. And in 1776 the first Bible printed from American-made type and what became the so-c...
