In early English use, literal referred to the straightforward meaning recoverable from reading a religious text, as in this example from the Wycliffe Bible dating to 1383, “Holy scripture hath ...

This view is not one that is promoted by the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church teaches that the Bible accounts and stories have to be understood within the time that they were written.

Each Book Package covers one book of the Bible. It includes: A literal translation built on the technical Greek or Hebrew A simplified translation that gets the meaning across similar to a paraphrase ...

Petterson's translation "combines the authority of ... in Christ U.S.A. whose stated goal was to deliver an English Bible "as ...

Bibleside is an offline Bible app featuring the OET (Open English Translation). Bibleside implements the OET's "Reader's" version in the main area and a toggle to show the "Literal" and "Reader's" ...