Arabic Smith-VanDyke Version

Info on the language: ARABIC

Central Semitic Language.

Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family.

Approx. 280 million native speakers and 250 million non-native speakers.

Spoken primarily in the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa.

It is the liturgical language of Islam.

Ranking :5

Of the Afro-Asiatic Semitic language family.

Official language of 25 countries, the third most after English and French.

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This is not the text of the Paris- (1645) and London Polyglott (1657), neither that of the Roman Catholic Propaganda version from Rome of 1671, neither the Jesuit version based mainly on the Latin Vulgate from Beirut of 1876-1878. The 20th and 21st century versions as the Arabic "Book of Life" (English equivalent "N.I.V."), 1988 (whole Bible), the Jesuits revised Roman Catholic version of 1880, the Today`s Arabic version or Good News Arabic or Ecumenical Version of 1992, the Noble Gospel (NT in 1990, whole Bible in 1999), and the product of Muslims and Christians in the Gosepls and Acts called, "The True Meaning of the Gospel of Christ" are all rehashes of Rome`s Jesuit ecumenical text.

The following text followes the Hebrew masoretic text and Greek Textus Receptus done by Smith and Van Dyke in Beirut, 1875, 4th printing. This version balances several translation virtues: it follows the original Hebrew and Greek texts very conscientiously, but yet uses idiomatic Arabic; it is simple and understandable, but yet is classical in vocabulary and grammar. It is the Bible used by Protestants and the Coptic (Orthodox) church from Egypt.

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