Bible translations

The Bible has been translated into many languages. The Tanakh was originally written in Hebrew, with the exception of some passages of Daniel, Ezra, and Jeremiah which are in Aramaic. The New Testament is widely agreed to have originally been written in Greek, although some scholars hypothesize that certain books may have been written in Aramaic before being translated for widespread dissemination.

Today, the whole Bible has been translated into 405 languages, the New Testament into 1034 languages and speakers of 864 languages has at least one book from the Bible available (, 2003).

A variety of approaches to translation have been used, including Formal equivalence (similar to Dynamic equivalence, Meaning-Based Translation, Idiomatic translation, and Paraphrase. A great deal of debate occurs over which approach most accurately communicates the message of the biblical languages source texts into target languages.

This page gives information about Bible translations in various languages, in alphabetical order by language. At the end of some of the sections you will find tables comparing the same verses in various translations.

Croatian Translations

The first complete translation was Jesuit Kasić's manuscript. The work was done from 1622 to 1637, but remained unpublished until 2000. It was in 1831 that the first published Croatian Bible appeared, translated by a Franciscan Matija Petar Katančić. After a few other versions, the most widely accepted and praised is modern language translation from 1968, the so called "Zagreb Bible", which is partially based on the Jerusalem Bible.