Emphasis Preaching Journal

By the time of the Gutenberg Press in the fifteenth century, the Bible, at least in some of its parts, had been translated into 33 languages. In the next 200 years, that figure would double to 67 languages in the seventeenth century. By the first half of the twentieth century, the Bible in whole or in part had been translated into 900 languages. One of them was even an invented language by J. R. R. Tolkien, philologist and author of Lord of the Rings. He translated the Lord's Prayer into Quenya, a language he made up just for the joy of it.