The daily Bible posts from ReStart will now include German language posts. The public domain version used is the Luther Bible edition of 1545. The Luther Bible is a German language Bible translation from Hebrew and ancient Greek by Martin Luther, of which the New Testament was published in 1522 and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, in 1534.
The Luther Bible was not the first German Bible translation, but it was the most influential. Luther's German Bible and its widespread circulation facilitated the emergence of a standard, modern German language for the German-speaking peoples throughout the Holy Roman Empire, an empire extending through and beyond present-day Germany. It is also considered a landmark in German literature, with Luther's vernacular style often praised by modern German sources for the forceful vigor with which he translated the Holy Scripture.
The search will continue for an appropriate German language audio link.
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