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Unveiling the Sacred: A Literary Journey Through BIML's Hungarian BiblesIn the vast mosaic of languages that texture our world, each word and phrase in one's own tongue has the weight of history, the echo of ancestors, and a kind of intrinsic holiness. At Bible In My Language (BIML), we provide the thread that stitches the personal with the universal through our collection of Hungarian Bibles and a Hungarian-Ukrainian bilingual New Testament. Each text, a vessel of sacred communication, invites …

THE BIBLE IN CHINESE / A LITTLE HISTORYWENLI VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURESThe first translations of the Bible into Chinese were in Wenli, the literary language of China. Chinese ideograms are read differently in each of the Chinese languages and dialects (much as, for example, Arabic numerals are “read” differently in the various European languages); but Wenli functioned as a common idiom for them all. Only a relatively small percentage of the population actually mastered this literary langu …