New YouTube Videos from JCBT The Year 2018 has been a very eventful and blessed year. In order to celebrate the things God has done through the Jerusalem Center for Bible, JCBT has uploaded new videos to its YouTube channel. This year, a new specialized and advanced program came to life, studying a specific Biblical […]
2018- A Truly Eventful Year. Dear friends, co-workers and alumni! We at JCBT have experienced a year of abundant blessing in that we have had the privilege to be a blessing to many nations. We have had the opportunity to serve representatives of a great number of people groups. This is grace, especially when […]
Why Do We Still Need to Translate the Bible? Just consider these facts: There are only 683 languages which have the whole Bible, both OT and NT– from among the 7099 languages in the world. There are 1534 translations of the NT with no OT in those mother tongues (Wycliffe, Oct. 2018,). All those people lack the foundational message […]
Once again JCBT is planning a course for French speaking mother tongue translators. We do make a point to implement it every second year or two even though it is a big challenge for us. It is a commitment to the ‘younger brother’ of the bigger English-speaking world in Africa. The first difficulty is that […]
Background: in the early 1990s Mirja Ronning was a Biblical Hebrew lecturer at The American Institute for Holy Land Studies (now JUC). She was coordinating the Hebrew program there and had already established a track for OT translators within the two-year MA in Hebrew degree. A few students chose this special track for translators, among […]
The land of the Bible courses provide accurate information about the context of the text which the translators and consultants cannot well imagine before coming to the land. They come from very different geographical and cultural backgrounds which can distort their understanding of the text. The solution is to see and experience the land for […]
2018 Translation Officers Summary The third UBS two-week study group was the largest and most challenging (Sept. 2 – Sept.15). It was provided by UBS for some 25 English speaking national consultants who had finished a three year training program which culminated in this intensive Land of the Bible tour offered by JCBT. We are […]
Bible Consultants from around the World in a High Level Course. Fourteen Bible Consultants from around the world have come to participate in a high level study of the Book of Psalms. Scholars and Translators of the Bible from four different continents (North America, Europe, Africa and Asia) have joined together in the course of […]
“One Eyed Man Among the Blind is King.” JCBT Website will feature a new section. We will collect and display various testimonies from past students. In these testimonies, alumnus will share about their experience in JCBT programs, their translation work back home, new Bible Translations that were produced and prayer requests for the future. This […]
Learn More About JCBT Sign Language Course. One of JCBT most unique specialized programs is the sign language program. Coordinated by Adam, the Deaf Course Coordinator, this program is specifically designed to the needs of Deaf Bible Translators from all around the world. You can learn more about this program by clicking here.
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