American Bible Society to close its $60 million museum after 3 years
inquirer.com
The museum created by the American Bible Society in July 2021 said it would be open to visitors until March 28. The Christian ministry nonprofit that translates Bibles and sends them around the world has recently been besieged with challenges including layoffs, funding troubles, and five CEO changes within two years.
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They think the Bible hasn't already been translated into every language?
It’s definitely been translated into the most used languages, but there are a bunch more that are being worked on still.
Here’s an infographic on it from another org: https://www.wycliffe.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023_Infographic-Large_EN.pdf
Looks like the way they calculate it, 80% of people in the world have access to a full translation of the Bible in their language.
There's also new original translations being done every year or two anyway. To say nothing of the dozens of smaller translation projects like Schlafly's Conservative Bible.
Supply Side Jesus used to be a joke
How much are they changing the translation to appeal more broadly to the recipients?
It's also hard to know how many languages in that chart are only spoken by multilingual people, in which case, a Bible in their language is not really necessary.