Turkish Bible Revision Project

We have been actively engaged in the task of translating the Scriptures into Turkish for some time, working closely with Evangelical believers in Turkey. Beginning in 1997, the Gospel of John was published from 2002 onwards, and the New Testament in 2022. The Old Testament was completed before the death of the translator in 2017 but needs revision. We hope to complete this so that the entire Bible in Turkish will be available faithfully and accurately translated from the Masoretic Hebrew and Greek Received Texts.

We are thankful to the Lord for answering our prayers about the Turkish Bible Revision, as we were able to approve a suitable reviser to begin this work at the end of 2022. The first half of the Old Testament has been completed. It is arduous work to consider the word choices and examine the cases where a word is used. Our reviser earnestly seeks prayer on his behalf that he may be as faithful as possible to the Biblical text with as good Turkish as possible, which sometimes requires going back and reworking some verses.

Meanwhile, the already revised books are being re-read, so that any typos or necessary changes are being written down along the way, to be sent to Editorial for correction. After the whole revision is finished, it is planned to take some months to go over the final text.