- List of Bible translators
This a list of Bible translators by language.
*Ivan Evseyevich Popov-Veniaminov (Saint
Innocent of Alaska ) - Russian Orthodox, into Fox-Aleut*John Eliot - into Algonquin
Amharic *
Johann Ludwig Krapf - German, parts into Oromo, Amharic, Nyika (Rabai) and Kamba
*Abu Rumi - Ethiopian Orthodox Church
*Blatta Märs'e Hazän - Ethiopian Orthodox Church
=Aniwan=*
John Gibson Paton - American Protestant, intoAniwan
=Arabic=*
Butrus al-Bustani
*Francis Britius
*Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck
*Saadia Gaon - Jewish, translated into Old Arabic
*Samuel Gobat , Anglican
*Sergius Risi
*Eli Smith , American
*Nasif al Yaziji Arapaho *
John Roberts andMichael White Hawk translated the Gospel of Luke into the Arapaho language for theAmerican Bible Society in 1903.
=Armenian=*
Elias Riggs - American Presbyterian, into modern Armenian and Bulgarian
=Assamese=*Nathan Brown - Baptist, translated into
Assamese andShan *
Rachel Saint - American, into Auca/Waodani
=Basque=*
Joannes Leizarrga - Catholic priest that joined theReformation , intoBasque
=Batak=*
Ludwig I. Nommensen -Rhenish Mission Society , intoBatak of Sumatra
=Bengali=*William Carey - Baptist, translated into Bengali and Sanskrit
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Francysk Skaryna , 1517
*Luka Dzekul-Malej [ [http://www.newlife.by/eng/history_en.php Церковь "Новая Жизнь" ] ] , 1926, 1931
*Anton Lutskevich , 1931
*Vasiliy Sergeevich Semukha [ [http://www.privet-minsk.com/Belarusian-Bible.html Belarusian Bible ] ] , 2003
*George Rapetsky , Canadian, 2003*
Eldon Leano Talamisan , 1999 (New Testament),Philippines *
Elias Riggs - American Presbyterian, into modern Armenian and Bulgarian
=Burmese=*
Adoniram Judson - Baptist, translated into Burmese*
William Cameron Townsend - Evangelical, translated intoCakchiquel
=Catalan=*
J.M. Prat Colom , 19th century
*Joan Roís de Corella , 15th century psalter
*Bonifaci Ferrer , 1478
*Jaume de Montjuich , 13th century
*Pau and Samuel Sais , 2000
=Cherokee=*At-see (also known as John Arch), 1824
*Elias Boudinot
*David Brown, 1825
*Amory N. Chamberlain
*Stephen Forman
*Evan and John B. Jones
*Jack and Anna Kilpatrick
*George Lowrey
*M.A. Pearson
*Charles C. Torrey
*Samuel Worcester
=Chinese=*
Gabrielle Allegra - Roman Catholic, translated into Chinese
*Solanus Lee ,Antonius Lee ,Bernardinus Lee andLudovicus Liu - Roman Catholics - translated into Chinese
*Robert Morrison and William Milne - Protestants, translated intoWenli ChineseChope *
Dinis Sengulane - Anglican, translated into Chope
=Croatian=*
Matija Petar Katančić - Roman Catholic, translated into CroatianDakota
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Thomas S. Williamson ,Gideon H. Pond andStephen R. Riggs - Protestants, translated intoDakota
=Danish=*
Christen Pedersen - into Danish
*Hans Povlsen Resen Lutheran, into Danish
=Dutch=*
Albert Koster
*Jan Utenhove
=English=* Rabbi
Howshua Amariel - Native American Jew, "THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible" [ [http://tcprayer.bravehost.com/torah1.htm THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible] ] (first formal equivalence translation of the Ancient Hebrew text) [http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SAB1=Amariel&BOOL1=all+of+these&FLD1=Keyword+Anywhere+%28GKEY%29+%28GKEY%29&GRP1=OR+with+next+set&SAB2=&BOOL2=as+a+phrase&FLD2=Keyword+Anywhere+%28GKEY%29+%28GKEY%29&PID=5YnX8gnaRv18WzVMlECvxV98Q_4Tq&SEQ=20080901120343&CNT=25&HIST=1 U.S. Copyright Office] [ [http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/kickapps/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=2105275&as=7691 amarielfamily - Guinness World Records Member] ] [ [http://www.planetnana.co.il/igbos/pages/books.html Igbo Interest World Wide- BOOKS] ] .
*Henry T. Anderson - American, "The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek"
*William Ballantine - translator ofThe Riverside New Testament (d. 1937)
*Steven T. Byington - American, translator ofThe Bible in Living English , published by theWatchtower Bible and Tract Society
*Heinz Cassirer - Messianic Jew, NT into English
*Richard Challoner - Catholic, into English
*Myles Coverdale - Anglican,Coverdale Bible ,Great Bible
*John Nelson Darby -Plymouth Brethren ,Darby Bible
*Ferrar Fenton - Anglican,Ferrar Fenton Bible
*Everett Fox - Jewish, translated into English and German
*Edgar J. Goodspeed - American, NT ofAn American Translation and worked onRevised Standard Version
*Jay P. Green Sr. - American, multiple translations into English, includingGreen's Literal Translation
*William Henry Green - American,American Standard Version
*Yisrayl Hawkins "corrected" English version of Bible,The Book of Yahweh
*George Joye - Protestant, the author of the first printed English translations ofPsalms (1530),Isaiah (1531),Proverbs (1533),Ecclesiastes (1533),Jeremiah (1534) and Lamentations (1534.
*B. E. Junkins -A Fresh Parenthetical Version of the New Testament
*Adolf Ernst Knoch - American, theConcordant Literal Version
*George Lamsa - Church of the East,Lamsa Bible
*Richmond Lattimore - published in 1996, his translation is titled "The New Testament"
*Neil R. Lightfoot -World Bible Translation Center ,International Children's Version ,New Century Version
*James MacKnight - Scottish, "The New Translation of the Apostolical Epistles"
*Richard Mant - "The Book of Psalms in an English Metrical Version"
*Max Margolis - Jew, into English
*Hugo McCord - American, Churches of Christ, "The Everlasting Gospel"
*Bruce Metzger - American, United Church of Christ,New Revised Standard Version (also theRevised Standard Version , 2nd Edition)
*Helen Barrett Montgomery - American, Baptist,Centenary New Testament
*Donald Nash - Christian Church, "A Literal and Consistent New Testament, 1997, rev. 1998
*Olaf M. Norlie - Lutheran, EnglishSimplified New Testament , also called "Children's Simplified New Testament"
*Matthew Parker - Anglican,Bishop's Bible
*Eugene H. Peterson - Evangelical, produced "The Message"
*J. B. Phillips - "The New Testament in Modern English", "Four Prophets "
*John Rogers - Protestant,Matthew Bible
*Joseph Bryant Rotherham - British, Church of Christ, TheEmphasized Bible
*Hugh Schonfield - Jewish, "The Original New Testament: A Radical Translation and Reinterpretation"
*Mary Sidney - Anglican, translated Psalms into English
*Joseph Smith, Jr. -Mormon ,Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible
*Julia E. Smith - Protestant,Julia E. Smith Parker Translation
*David H. Stern - "The Complete Jewish Bible"
*Richard Taverner - Anglican,Taverner's Bible
*Charles Thomson - Protestant,Thomson's Translation
*William Tyndale - Tyndale's Bible
*Kenneth Wuest - Evangelical,Wuest Expanded Translation
*John Wycliffe -Wyclif's Bible
*Robert Young - Protestant,Young's Literal Translation Old English *
Bede - translated into Old English
*Caedmon - translated into Old EnglishEsperanto *
L. L. Zamenhof - Jewish, translated intoEsperanto
=Finnish=*
Mikael Agricola - Lutheran, translated into Finnish
=French=*
Giovanni Diodati - Protestant, translated into Italian and French
*François de Larben
*Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples - Roman Catholic, translated into French
*Antoine Lemaistre andLouis Isaac Lemaistre - Roman Catholics, translated into French
*Nicholas de Leuze
*Pierre Robert Olivétan - Protestant, translated into French
*Jean Frederic Ostervald - Protestant, translated into French
*Louis-Isaac Le Maître de Sacy - Jansenist, translated into French
*Louis Segond - Calvinist, translated into French
=German=*
Johann Augusti
*Martin Buber , Jewish
*Johann Dietenberger , Catholic
*Martin Luther , Lutheran reformer,Luther Bible
*Moses Mendelssohn , Jewish
*Franz Rosenzweig , Jewish
*Karl-Heinz Vanheiden
*Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette Old German *
Williram - Roman Catholic, translated into Old German*
Hiram Bingham II - Congregationalist, translated intoGilbertese
=Gothic=*
Ulfilas - Arian, translated into Gothic
=Greek=*
Maximus de Gallipoli - translated into GreekModern Greek *
Alexandros Pallis - translated into Modern Greek
=Gullah=*
Pat and Claude Sharpe - Evangelical, translated intoGullah
=Hawaiian=*
Lorrin Andrews - ABCFM missionary into Hawai'ian
*Sheldon Dibble - American, translated intoHawaiian
=Hebrew (New Testament ) =*
Franz Delitzsch - Lutheran, translated New Testament into Hebrew
*Yitzhak Salkinsohn - Presbyterian, translated the New Testament into Hebrew*
Szenci Molnár Albert - Reformed, into Hungarian
*György Káldi - Roman Catholic, translated into Hungarian
*Gáspár Károlyi - Protestant, translated into Hungarian
*János Sylvester - Protestant, translated into Hungarian*
Oddur Gottskálksson - Protestant, translated intoIcelandic
*Guðbrandur Þorláksson - Lutheran, translated into Icelandic
=Italian=*
Antonio Brucioli - Protestant, translated into Italian
*Giovanni Diodati - Protestant, translated into Italian and French
*Samuel David Luzzatto - Jew, into Italian
*Santi Marmochini - Roman Catholic, translated into Italian
*Antonio Martini - Roman Catholic, translated into Italian
=Kamba=*
Johann Ludwig Krapf - German, parts into Oromo, Amharic, Nyika (Rabai) and Kamba
=Korean=*
Henry G. Appenzeller - Methodist Episcopal, into KoreanLatin
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Jerome -Church Father , translated into Latin, theVulgata
*John Immanuel Tremellius - Italian Jew converted to Christianity, into Latin
=Lisu=*
J. O. Fraser - China Inland Mission, intoLisu *
Ivan Grozdanov - translated the New Testament into modern Macedonian. Published 1999.
=Malay=*
Albert Cornelius Ruyl - Protestant, translated into Malay*
Hermann Gundert - Basle Mission, intoMalayalam
*Bro.Dr.Mathews Vergis - Inter Denominational Christian Fellowship, intoModern Malayalam .Holy Bible (Visudha Grandham) translated from Syriac by Very Rev. Kurian Cor Episcopa- the Official bible ofJacobite Syrian Church
=Māori=*
Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso Church Mission Society, into Maori
=Marathi=*
Bapuji Appaji - into Marathi
*B. N. Athavale
*William Carey
*Ratnakar Hari Kelkar - NT translation from Greek to Marathi 2005 and Greek-Marathi wordbook [http://www.bible-marathi.com Nava Karar]
*Pandita Ramabai - Evangelical, translated intoMarathi
=A-Miao=*
Sam Pollard - intoA-Miao , also known as Flowery Miao
=Mixtec=*
Kenneth L. Pike - Evangelical, translated into MixtecNama
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Johann Heinrich Schmelen - Nama of Namibia*
Johann Ludwig Krapf - German, parts into Oromo, Amharic, Nyika (Rabai) and Kamba
=Oromo=*
Aster Ganno - Protestant, intoOromo
*Johann Ludwig Krapf - German, parts into Oromo, Amharic, Nyika (Rabai) and Kamba
*Onesimos Nesib - Lutheran, translated intoOromo Oshindonga *
Martti Rautanen -Finnish Missionary Society , intoOshindonga ofNamibia *
Gottlieb Viehe - German, into Otjiherero ofNamibia Paniya
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Bro.Dr.Mathews Vergis and Team - "DAIVAM MANCHANAYOTHE KATHA" The story of GOD who became man,Published by Word to World Foundation,Inter Denominational Christian Fellowship,New TestamentPaniya
=Persian=*
Henry Martyn
=Polish=*
Jan Laski - into Polish
*Jan Sieklucki - Calvinist, translated into Polish
*Jakub Wujek - Jesuit, translated into Polish*Emperor D. Pedro II - translated the
book of Nehemiah into Portuguese
*Bernardo de Alcobaça - Roman Catholic, translated into Portuguese
*João Ferreira de Almeida - Protestant, translated into Portuguese
*António Pereira de Figueiredo - Roman Catholic father, translated into Portuguese based on theVulgata
*Huberto Rohden - Roman Catholic and spiritualist, translated the New Testament into Portuguese
*Gómez de Santofímia - Roman Catholic, translated thePsalms into Portuguese
*Matos Soares - Roman Catholic, translated into PortugueseProvençal *
Peter Waldo - Waldensian, translated into Provençal
=Romanian=*
Petru Pavel Aron
*Constantin Brâncoveanu - into Romanian
*Dumitru Cornilescu - Protestant, translated into Romanian
*Gala Galaction - Romanian Orthodox, translated into Romanian
*Radu and Şerban Greceanu - translated into Romanian
=Russian=*
Epifany Slavinetsky - Russian Orthodox, translated into RussianSanskrit *William Carey - Baptist, translated into Bengali and Sanskrit
Sechwana *
Robert Moffat - Congregationalist, translated intoSechwana
=Serbian=*
Lujo Bakotić - translated into Serbian
*Aleksandar Birviš - translated into Serbian
*Đuro Daničić - Serbian Orthodox, translated into Serbian
*Vuk Stefanović Karadžić - Serbian Orthodox, translated into Serbian
*Dimitrije Stefanović - translated into Serbian
*Atanasije Stojković - translated into Serbian
=Seri=*
Edward W. Moser - American Evangelical, intoSeri of Mexico
=Shan=*Nathan Brown - Baptist, translated into
Assamese andShan Slavic
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Cyril and Methodius - translated into Slavic
=Slovak=*
Jozef Roháček - Protestant, translated into Slovak
=Slovene=*
Jurij Dalmatin - Protestant, translated into Slovene
*Primož Trubar - Lutheran, translated into SloveneSomali *
H. Warren Modricker ,Dorothy Modricker - 1976 (New Testament)
*Dorothy Modricker ,Adan Jimale Farah - 1979 (complete Bible)
=Sorbian=*
Michel Hornik (Michael Hornig) - intoSorbian *
Jan Bjedrich Fryco (Johann Friedrich Fritze) - intoLower Sorbian
=Spanish=*
Francisco de Enzinas - Protestant, translated into Spanish
*Juan Pérez de Pineda - Protestant, translated into Spanish
*Casiodoro de Reina - Lutheran, translated into Spanish
*Scío de San Miguel - Roman Catholic, translated into Spanish
*Abraham Usque - Jewish, translated into Spanish
*Cipriano Valera - Protestant, revised Reina's translation
*Moses Arragel - Jew, translated Hebrew Scriptures (1430)
=Swedish=*
Helge Åkessons - Lutheran, translated into Swedish
*Olavus Petri - Protestant, into Swedish
*Gustav Vasa - Protestant, translated into Swedish,Gustav Vasa Bible
=Tamil=*
Johann Philipp Fabricius - German, revised Tamil
=Tatar=*
Nikolai Ivanovitch Ilminski - Russian Orthodox, intoTatar Thai *
Philip Pope (missionary) - Independent Baptist, into Thai from theKJV
=Turkish=*
Wojciech Bobowski , also known as Ali Ufki - born Protestant, converted to Islam, translated into Ottoman Turkish*
Panteleimon Kulish - into Ukrainian
*Ivan Nechui-Levytsky - into Ukrainian
*Ivan Ohiienko (Ohijenko, Ogienko) - into Ukrainian
*Ivan Puluj (also spelled Puliui) - into Ukrainian
=Welsh=*William Morgan - Anglican, translated into Welsh
*William Salesbury - Protestant, translated into Welsh
=Xhosa=*
Henry Hare Dugmore - Methodist, translated intoXhosa
=Yiddish=*
Elijah Levita (aka Bahur andElijah ben Asher ) - Jewish, GermanYiddish
=Yoruba =*
Samuel Ajayi Crowther - translated into Yoruba and concluded it in the mid 1880 known as " Bibeli Mimo"
=Zulu=*
John William Colenso - Anglican,Zulu
*Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder - Norwegian, translated in ZuluTranslators into multiple languages
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Elias Riggs - American Presbyterian, into modern Armenian and Bulgarian
*Johann Ludwig Krapf - German, parts into Oromo, Amharic, Nyika (Rabai) and Kamba
*William Carey - Baptist, translated into Bengali and Sanskrit
*Nathan Brown - Baptist, translated intoAssamese andShan
*Giovanni Diodati - Protestant, translated into Italian and French
*Henry Martyn - Protestant, translated intoHindustani and PersianReferences
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