PROPHETIC POETRY: The Book of Micah October 28-November 14, 2019 Instructors: Drs. Ernst Wendland and Lynell Zogbo Text-Context-Message-Translation In line with the most recent “One book at a time” seminar on Psalms (November, 2018), JCBT is happy to announce a new course focusing on the Poetry of the Prophets, based on the book of MICAH, […]
On January 23rd, eight Mother-Tongue Bible translators from West Africa have started our 2019 Semester Program. Countries that are represented include: Cameroon, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Central Africa Republic, Congo and Benin. More than eight months of correspondences and coordination, including some uphill battles, brought this special course into a successful start. This unique course […]
Concise Summary of the training programs of the Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators The vision and work of JCBT, from its beginning in 1995, is based on the necessity of equipping mother tongue Bible translators with the tools and information that are essential to the task of conveying the message of the Hebrew Bible to […]
Christmas Greetings! Warm Christmas greetings from JCBT to you our friends and prayer supporters. The LORD has abundantly blessed JCBT during this year of 2018. It has been a blessing and a joy to representatives of many tribes and nations who do not have a Bible in their mother-tongue. The fruit of this work is our and […]
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 […]
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