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Syriac Orthodox Bible Society and Vishudha Grandham The Syriac Orthodox Church uses the Peshitta version as its official Bible and hence all the translations that were done within the church where that of the Peshitta. It is available online in various digital formats. This version translates the Tetragrammaton as Lord (കർത്താവ്) in the main text and Yahweh (യാഹ്‌വെ) in various footnotes. In 1967, the Pastoral Orientation Center of the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council began a new translation of the Bible it was completed by 1981, and is known as the POC Bible. The World Bible Translation Centre India provides the Easy-to-Read Version. There was a need to bring out a Bible in the contemporary Malayalam language, thus the CL version which was published in 2013.īiblica translated and published the New India Bible Version (NIBV) in Malayalam in 1997. It is the most widely used version among non-catholic denominations. OV is the Malayalam Sathya Veda Pusthakam that was published in 1910. Old/Original version (OV) and Common/Contemporary language version (CL). Īs per Bible Society of India (Kerala Auxiliary), there are 2 versions of Sathayavedhapusthakam popularly used today. Sathyavedhapusthakam was published online in 2014 in various digital formats. The complete Sathyavedhapusthakam in Unicode was published online in 2004 by Nishad Hussein Kaippally. This version translates the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah (യഹോവ) throughout the Old Testament. The Bible Society of India Kerala Auxiliary (established in 1956) made minor revisions to the Malayalam Old Version in 1910 called Sathyavedhapushthakam (സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം), which became the standard version for Marthoma Church and Protestant denominations. Modern versions Protestant and Marthoma Sathyavedhapusthakam 1780-1850) also translated parts of the Bible into Malayalam. Hermann Gundert updated Bailey's version and produced the first Malayalam- English dictionary in 1872. He completed his translation of the New Testament in 1829 and the Old Testament in 1841. In 1817, the Church Missionary Society of India (CMS) provided Benjamin Bailey to translate the Bible into Malayalam. This translation is now known as the Ramban Bible. Timapah completed translation of the New Testament in 1813, but this edition was found to include vocabulary known only to the Syriac Christian community and not to the general Malayalee population. The Bible Society of India (then an Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society) paid for 500 copies to be printed in Bombay in 1811. They then translated the Tamil version by Johann Philipp Fabricius into Malayalam. The College was also privileged to offer the venue of the composition of Malayalam-English, English-Malayalam dictionaries. The venue to the translation of Bible into unified and standardized Malayalam vernacular was at Cottayam College" or the "Syrian Seminary" now called as "Old Seminary" or " Orthodox Theological Seminary", Chungom, Kottayam. By 1807, Ittoop and Ramban-both Malankara Syrian Christian monks-had translated the four gospels from Syriac into Malayalam, assisted by Timapah Pillay. Īt that time, Syriac was the liturgical language of Christians in Kerala. Macaulay also undertook the task of supervising the translators. He actively supported Buchanan, attending meetings with senior church leaders as well as facilitating several audiences with the Rajah of Travancore to secure his approval as well. Macaulay was British Resident of Travancore at that time. He visited Kerala in the early 19th century and persuaded church leaders to translate biblical manuscripts into Malayalam, with support from local scholars. Buchanan was Vice-Principal of the College of Calcutta and had a strong interest in linguistics. The first attempt to translate the Bible into Malayalam was made in 1806 by Pulikkottil Joseph Ittoop and Kayamkulam Philipose Ramban, with the support of the Rev.