United Bible Societies - The Bible for Everyone!
BIML workers visited and purchased form most of the members of UBS, during the last 14 years.
https://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org/
The United Bible Societies
(UBS) is an association of 152 Bible societies, each of which represents
a different country or territory.
The UBS was established in 1946 by
thirteen national Bible societies. The British and Foreign Bible Society
(BFBS) played a particularly important role in the making of the UBS.
The BFBS was established in 1804 and systematically set up Auxiliary
Bible Societies throughout the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
When the colonies gained independence, the Auxiliary Bible Societies
turned into National Bible Societies which then became members of the
UBS. The predecessor of the Bible Society of India, for example, was the
Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society formed in 1811; the Bible Society of
Indonesia developed from the Java Auxiliary Bible Society founded in
1814. In the past 70 years, the UBS has coordinated efforts to translate
Scriptures into new languages.
Although Bible portions were translated
into twenty-three languages under the direct auspices of the UBS, the
preferred method has been to channel projects through national Bible
societies. The UBS assists national Bible societies in three ways to
accomplish the task. Firstly, the UBS has published aids for translators
(including the journal The Bible Translator and the handbook A Guide for Translators and Revisers).
Secondly the UBS provides translation advisers who cooperate with
national translation committees. Thirdly, the UBS exchanges information
about translation needs among its member societies. Since the 1950s, the
UBS and its member societies translated Scriptures into 279 new
languages.
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