In the first sessions of the Synod of Dordt in November 1618, before the delegates of the Synod even addressed the divisive Arminian controversy, they joined together to commission a new Bible.

A Japanese company called Logbar has created a gadget that translates your words instantly so it could make travelling the world much easier. The device is called "ili" and at the moment it only ...

Last spring, the National Council of Churches commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to lead a review and update of the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible. The new NRSV ...

Japan also exerts enormous "soft power" though the borderless appeal of its anime, manga, film, and literature. Focus: The BA (major) in Japanese Studies gives you the linguistic and cultural fluency ...

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The New Living Translation was translated from the ancient texts by 90 leading Bible scholars. It employs clear and natural English. It often makes implicit information explicit (e.g. 'disreputable ...

Manga is a 14 billion-dollar industry for Japan, but it would be even bigger if it weren't for online sites offering stolen versions of the comics. A Tokyo start-up hopes artificial intelligence ...

The world's most widely known Bible translation, using early seventeenth-century English. Its powerful, majestic style has made it a literary classic, with many of its phrases and expressions embedded ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Nagoya won 5-4, with all players scoring their penalties. Japanese original The easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material ...

Note: The Japanese language often borrows and shortens foreign words. For example, the word homu in the original text is derived from "platform." "Aluminum" commonly becomes arumi. Japanese ...