The Perspective

For centuries, Bibles in native language were not available, Syrian Bibles were used in few churches in the southern part of India, but now we have Bibles in different Indian Languages. In this episode, I’ll talk about the Early Indian Biblical translations done in our country by some influential Biblical scholars.

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A translation is when you replace each word in the original language with an exact equivalent in the target language. It is possible to translate between Greek and Hebrew, but not English. English requires capital letters at the start of each sentence and other places and punctuation in certain places.  Similarly, the Bible has been translated into different languages. One of those most difficult language translation work was ...

The arrival of Christianity in India comes from the Acts of Thomas and a few more oral traditions recorded on documents in later centuries. This episode is all about the Origin of Biblical teachings in India. Sheds light upon the Syrian Malabar Nasrani people, who represent an ethnic community in Kerala, South India. Their tradition goes back to the beginnings of first-century Christian thought and the seven churches established by...

The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The Latin Vulgate translation was dominant in early Western Christianity through the Middle Ages. Since then, the Bible has been translated into many more languages. English Bible translations also have a rich and varied history of more than a millennium. So, This Episode is a discussion about the early English translations ...

This episode is a discussion about the early translations of the second part of the Christian scriptures, The first translations (usually called "versions") of the New Testament were made beginning already at the end of the 2nd century. The earliest versions of the New Testament are the translations into the Syriac, Latin, and Coptic languages. These three versions were made directly from the Greek, later Monks, and Scholars in the...

This episode is a discussion about the early Old Testament translations of the Bible, Some of the first translations of the Hebrew Bible began during the Babylonian exile when Aramaic replaced Hebrew as the common language of the Jews living in and out of Israel. With most people speaking only Aramaic and not understanding Hebrew, the Targums were created to allow the common person to understand the Hebrew Bible as it was read in a...

This episode is a discussion about the Bible manuscripts/ Codex. Bible manuscripts when compared to other ancient writings, stand-alone as the best-preserved literary works of all antiquity. There are thousands of existing Old Testament manuscripts and fragments copied throughout the Middle East, Mediterranean and European regions that agree phenomenally with each other. In addition, these texts substantially agree with the Septuag...