Bible translations (Spanish)
From Textus Receptus
The Reina-Valera is a Spanish translation of the Bible, first published in 1569 in Basel, Switzerland and nicknamed the "Biblia del Oso" (in English: Bible of the Bear). The facsimile reproduction of this historic text was published by the Spanish Bible Society (1970 ISBN 84-8083-073-5). It was not the first complete Bible in Spanish; several others, most notably the Alfonsina Bible, were published in previous centuries. Its principal translator was Casiodoro de Reina, an independent evangelic theologian compare: Rosales, Raymond S. Casiodoro de Reina: Patriarca del Protestantismo Hispano. St. Louis: Concordia Seminary Publications. 2002. This translation was based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Bomberg's Edition, 1525) and the Greek Textus Receptus (Stephanus' Edition, 1550). As secondary sources Reina was aided by the Ferrara Bible for the Old Testament and the Latin Edition of Santes Pagnino throughout. For the New Testament he had great aid from the translations of Francisco de Enzinas and Juan Pérez de Pineda. The 1569 version included the deuterocanonical books in the Old Testament.
This Bible, as central to the perception of the scriptures by Protestants in Spanish has seen several editions, the first of which took place in 1602 under the editorial eye of Cipriano de Valera. This edition was printed in Amsterdam. The 1602 revision moved the deuterocanonical books to a section between the Old and New Testaments called the Apocrypha.A facsimile edition was produced by the Spanish Bible Society in 1992.
Next was the revision of 1862, followed by revisions in 1909, 1960 and 1995. Modern editions often omit the Apocrypha.
Since the 1960 revision was released, there has been much debate among conservative Christian groups which use the Reina-Valera Bible. However, the 1960 revision became the common Bible of many millions of Spanish-speaking Christians around the world, surpassing the 1909 in its reception. Almost all Hispanic Fundamentalists use it, despite further attempts to revise it.
- Other Revisions
- The 1602 Purified Bible done in Monterrey, Mexico.
- Another Revision of the Valera Bible was made in 1865 by Dr. Ángel H. de Mora of Spain and subsequently printed by the American Bible Society. The ABS continued to reprint this Valera edition until the 1950s. It was then reprinted again in the year 2000 by Local Church Bible Publishers of Lansing, Michigan and also the Valera Bible Society of Miami, Florida.
- The Reina-Valera-Gomez Bible, done in Matamoros, Mexico.compare: Here Comes Gomezcompare: What About The Gomez Bible?
- The Trinitarian Bible Society is working on a revision of the Valera 1909 at this time.
- In September 2009 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published their first official Spanish edition of the Bible based on the 1909 Reina-Valera edition, with "a very conservative update of outdated grammar and vocabulary". Church Edition of Spanish Bible Now Published Santa Biblia
LDS Edition of The Holy Bible in Spanish [1]
See also
Footnotes
External links
- Text of the Biblia del Oso (1569) - digitized version
- Text of Valera Bible Revision (1865)
- Text of the Biblia Reina-Valera (1909)
- Text of the Reina Valera 1960, searchable text. Must scroll down to select it
- Text of the Reina Valera Gomez Bible Revision 2004
- LDS Text of the Santa Biblia Reina-Valera (2009): Old Testament
- LDS Text of the Santa Biblia Reina-Valera (2009): New Testament
- History of Reina Valera in Spanish
- Book on history of 1960 Revision
