Württemberg Bible Society

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The Württembergische Bibelgesellschaft (WBG), formerly the Württembergische Bibelanstalt , is a Bible Society in Württemberg with its seat in Stuttgart-Möhringen .

history

The Württemberg Bible Society (WBG) goes back to the Privileged Württemberg Bible Institute founded on September 11, 1812 by Carl Friedrich Adolf Steinkopf (1773-1859) and others . It is the oldest still existing German Bible Society and part of the German Bible Society .

The original goals of the society were above all to spread the Holy Scriptures and to improve the understanding of the Bible among the population of Württemberg.

The Württemberg Bible Institute in Stuttgart as the largest German Bible Institute and the smaller Canstein Bible Institute in Westphalia, which had previously acted as a biblical publisher for Germany, were merged in 1975 to form the German Biblical Foundation . A path was taken that led to the establishment of the German Bible Society in 1981 through the merger of the German Biblical Foundation with the Evangelical Bible Works . Gradually most of the other German Bible Societies joined the community project, most recently in 1991 that of the former GDR . Since then, the Württembergische Bibelanstalt has only been operated as a local department under the name Württembergische Bibelgesellschaft .

The Biblical House of the Privileged Wuerttemberg Bible Institute at Balinger Strasse 31 in Stuttgart-Möhringen is also the seat of the new German Bible Society . In 2014, Klaus Sturm was replaced by Franziska Stocker-Schwarz on the line.

An ecumenically composed advisory board is today the decision-making body of the Württemberg Bible Society .

In 2012 the German Bible Society celebrates its 200th anniversary thanks to its subsidiary Württembergische Bibelgesellschaft .

Works

The Württembergische Bibelgesellschaft became known primarily for the publication of the Stuttgart Jubilee Bible , which was published in September 1912 on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation of the Privileged Biblical Institute. The Stuttgart Jubilee Bible appeared partly as a splendid edition with a study annex and partly even with concordance. In 1937 a handy pocket edition followed, also with concordance, but with a shortened study part. This study was written by Pastor a. D. Paul Langbein edited. The Bible was based on the revision of the Luther Bible in 1912.

From 1918 to 1952, the Bible Society published the first revision of the so-called miniature Bible by the Swiss preacher Franz Eugen Schlachter , who had died in 1911. The Swiss pastors Linder and Kappeler had revised this translation of the Bible by the sanctification movement after the death of Schlachter. In 1951, however, the Schlachter Bible was revised by the Geneva Bible Society , which led to the publication of the Linder Kappeler edition being discontinued.

From 1939, the Bible Society also published the well-known Bible edition by the philologist Hermann Menge . Later followed u. a. the distribution of the 1931 revised Zurich Bible and the co-edition of the so-called ecumenical standard translation .

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  1. ^ New head of the Württemberg Bible Society , dbg.de, notification from November 7, 2014.