Geneva Bible Society

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The Geneva Bible Society is a state-recognized, non-profit , missionary foundation .

history

The Geneva Bible Society was founded in 1917. As with all Bible societies in the world, their main task is the inexpensive production or distribution of the Bible , which is regarded as God's word . The main focus of the work is Bibles in Italian , French and German .

The activity initially began through missionary bookshops , then called "Depot of the Holy Scriptures". It all began in Geneva in 1917 , then in Paris in 1925 under the name “House of the Bible”, in Zurich in 1933 , and then in several countries on three continents. The head office has been in Romanel-sur-Lausanne since 1997 . There are currently 20 Bible houses in France , Switzerland , Italy and Côte d'Ivoire .

After the Second World War , she took over the editing and revision of the Schlachter Bible , which appeared in 1951. A special edition of the New Testament appeared as early as 1945 when the Scripture Gift Mission distributed hundreds of thousands of New Testaments among German prisoners of war in British captivity. This edition was based on a slightly edited text from the original miniature Bible by Franz Eugen Schlachter from 1905.

In 1995 the Geneva Bible Society commissioned the third full revision of the Schlachter Bible. In 2003 this revision, commonly known as “Schlachter 2000”, appeared as a full Bible; it is now available in various editions. A concordance on the Schlachter Bible is currently in progress.

present

Even today, the purpose of the Geneva Bible Society is still to make the Bible available to interested people free of charge or at the lowest possible price. It tries to preserve the biblical-Christian culture, the foundation of faith in Jesus Christ and the basis of Christian traditions and art, in Switzerland and abroad. The New Geneva Translation has been published since 1988 . Initially only individual Bible books appeared, since 2000 the New Testament, since 2011 the New Testament and Psalms in one volume.

The Geneva Bible Society does not seek profit and is independent of all political and religious organizations. From 1998 to 2006 it printed 115,000 Bibles per year, from 2007 to 2011 800,000 per year. In 2011, 35 percent of the project expenditure totaling 650,000 Swiss francs was used for Bible projects, 17 percent to support Christian bookshops and 15 percent for evangelistic purposes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geneva Bible Society (ed.): The Bible . Version 2000. 1st edition. Christian literature distribution, Bielefeld 2003, ISBN 3-89397-023-1 (translation by Franz Eugen Schlachter based on the basic Hebrew and Greek text).
  2. ↑ Bible Info. Summer 2012, Volume 70, No. 2, Romanel-sur-Lausanne 2012, pp. 7–8.