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JCBT Newsletter March 2021

  From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday! Dear beloved friends and co-workers, Greetings from the Jerusalem Center for Translators! Let us walk through the events of this significant week together in our thoughts and spirits. The week includes the Passover night celebration about the joy of gaining freedom from slavery in Egypt to the joyful celebration of gaining Eternal Life through repentance and forgiveness …

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JCBT English Newsletter February 2021

NEWS of NEW BEGINNINGS: overcoming Corona by Zoom teaching! Teaching sent from Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, to the countries of the students of 2021. “For Instruction will come out of Zion and the Word of the  Lord from Jerusalem”. Isaiah 2:3 Dear friends and co-workers! Greetings from Jerusalem on Feb. 21st, the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MOTHER-TONGUE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. Greetings …

Finnish Newsletter January 2021

Uutiskirje 1/2021 Rakkaat ystävät Jerusalemin Raamattukodin uutiset 1/2021 on postitettu ja saapuu tällä viikolla paperisen ystäväkirjeen tilaajille. Uutiskirje löytyy kokonaisuudessaan alla olevasta linkistä, ja se avautuu internet-selaimessa. Saakoon tämä kirje olla siunaukseksi myös sinulle. Lue tästä Jerusalemin Raamattukodin uutiset 1/2021 2021 kevään oppilaat zoom-opetuksessa. Viimeisimmät uutiset Uutiskirjeen mennessä painoon kevään 2021 kymmenen oppilasta kahdeksasta eri maasta ja kuudesta eri aikavyöhykkeestä ovat aloittaneet …

Fall 2021 French Program

Two birds with one stone In 2018 and 2019, Dr Ernst Wendland and I, with the help of Chris Lovelace, led two successful one-book workshops (Psalms and Micah) at Jerusalem Center for Bible Translation. In these intensive 3-week courses, our highly qualified students (all with MA or PhDs) were challenged to study a single biblical book from the Hebrew, concentrating …

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COURS INTENSIF SUR LA NARRATION ET LA POESIE EN HEBREU BIBLIQUE

COURS INTENSIF SUR LA NARRATION ET LA POESIE EN HEBREU BIBLIQUE   JERUSALEM CENTER FOR BIBLE TRANSLATION  MARS 1 – 31, 2022 Ce cours intensif de cinq semaines se focalisera sur: des études de DISCOURS de deux genres littéraires dans la Bible hébraïque : les textes narratifs et les textes poétiques.  Les textes de référence seront le livre de Jonas et …

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Letter from husband of former student

Dear Halvor and Mirja, This is R’s husband B. As you already know R reached back safely home; she has been sharing her stories (of the last six months), and it is still going on. I was so glad to hear your story – how you started the JCBT; your simple faith, your commitment and how this is serving the …

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RESPONSE TO CORONA: SUCCESSFUL PAST & EXCITING FUTURE

Dear friends, alumni and colleagues, “This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it”. Psa. 118:24. HOMECOMINGS Finally, we here at JCBT are in a position to share the news that all the national students of 2020 have reached home. The last 5 had to wait for flights home for one whole month …

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JCBT Online Proverbs Course

The Book of Proverbs: Third in the Series… “TEXT IN CONTEXT: ONE BOOK AT A TIME” Online classes: November 2-20, 2020 Instructor: Murray Salisbury This series is designed to equip consultants and translators, focusing on a given book of the Bible – its text, context and message – during an intensive time period. Following the huge success of the first …

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Open Consultant Course now open for registration!

Course Dates: Lord willing the Open Consultant Course 2021 will be held from 1 to 14 September 2021. This exceptional 14-day course includes 12 days of study-tours relating Scripture text to its historical, archaeological, cultural, linguistic and geographical context.  The following topics will be covered: History, geography and archeology of the Land of the Bible Agricultural practices from the time of …

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THE GRADUATION CLASS OF 2020

THE WINNERS! In the featured image above: Corona Year: 13 Graduates from 9 countries with the directors and Hebrew instructors. (Several faces blurred for security reasons.) Dear friends,  ” This is the day the Lord has made – let us exult and rejoice in it”. Ps. 118:24 Indeed,  this is the group that came out victorious from a semester during which three …