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The English writer W. Somerset Maugham reverses the moral order in a different way in his short story, "The Ant and The Grasshopper" (1924). It concerns two brothers, one of whom is a dissolute waster whose hard-working brother has constantly to bail out of difficulties.
The Tyndale Bible (TYN) generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale into Early Modern English, made c. 1522–1535.Tyndale's biblical text is credited with being the first Anglophone Biblical translation to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate and Luther's German New Testament.
Good News Bible ( GNB ), also called the Good News Translation ( GNT) in the United States, is an English translation of the Bible by the American Bible Society. It was first published as the New Testament under the name Good News for Modern Man in 1966. It was anglicised into British English by the British and Foreign Bible Society with the ...
The Passion Translation ( TPT) is a modern English translation of the New Testament, and of an increasing number of books from the Hebrew Bible. The goal of The Passion Translation is "to bring God's eternal truth into a highly readable heart-level expression that causes truth and love to jump out of the text and lodge inside our hearts." [ 1]
The complete Darby Bible, including Darby's 3rd edition New Testament and his students' Old Testament, was first published in 1890. [ 1] Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface to his English NT, to make a modern translation for the unlearned who have neither access to manuscript texts nor training and knowledge of ancient languages of ...
The New Living Translation ( NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House Foundation, the NLT was created "by 90 leading Bible scholars." [ 4] The NLT relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [ 1]
Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is a translation of a text done by translating each word separately without looking at how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [ 1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).
Russian translations. The first Russian translation of One Thousand and One Nights, in Russian: Тысяча и одна ночь ( Týsjača i odná nočʹ ), was made by Alexey Filatyev in 1763–1774. [ 8] It was based on Galland's translation and consisted of 12 volumes. [ 8] Later Russian translations were also based on European translations.