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Fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio showing Saint Jerome with a white beard and red robe, seated at a desk writing in his study, surrounded by books and scholarly objects.
Title page of Martin Luther's 1534 German translation of the Old Testament, featuring ornate black-and-white illustrations of angels, cherubs, columns, and religious figures around Gothic script.
William Tyndale's Bible
John Wycliffe
Open 1663 Bible printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, showing title page with text in the Massachusett (Wopanaak) language, translated by John Eliot, with visible aged pages and red-edged paper.
Learn about Bible translations and the execution of William Tyndale for heresy after he translated the New Testament into English
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, shown in dark robes and cap, writing with a quill at a desk, after Quinten Massijs, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
José de Ribera: Saint Jerome
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe
English theologian
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Franz Rosenzweig
German philosopher
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Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
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Saint Methodius
Christian theologian
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Saint Cyril
Christian theologian
Mendelssohn, Moses
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and scholar
Ulfilas teaching Christianity to the Goths, early 20th-century illustration.
Ulfilas
bishop of the Goths
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Maximus The Greek
Greek Orthodox monk and scholar
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Saints Cyril and Methodius
Christian theologians
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
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St. Isaac the Great
Armenian religious leader
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Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
French humanist and theologian
William Carey
William Carey
British missionary
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Nicholas Of Hereford
English scholar
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
Rogers, John
John Rogers
English religious reformer