It was superseded by a translation of the whole Bible by Bishop William Morgan in 1588. Morgan's Bible removed certain South Walian words in Salesbury's translation, such as caser (hail), and ...
The last edition of the Deuteronomistic History, the one in our Bible, comes from the sixth century BCE, the time of the Babylonian Exile. In this context, it offers an explanation for Israel's ...
For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon's devastation of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total ...
Of even greater importance was the translation’s cultural significance. The translation of the Bible gave great prominence to the Welsh language, to the extent that it served to preserve the ...