Bible translations into Catalan

The first complete Catalan Bible translation was produced by the Catholic Church, between 1287 and 1290. It was entrusted to Jaume de Montjuich by Alfonso II of Aragon. Remains of this version can be found in Paris (BibliothÃÂ¨que Nationale).

In the early fifteenth century, the Bible was translated into Catalan again by Bonifaci Ferrer. Ferrer's translation, known as the Valencian Bible, was printed in 1478 before any Bible was printed in English or Spanish. The prohibition, in Spain and other Catholic countries, of vernacular translations, along with the decline of the Catalan language until its renaissance in the nineteenth century, explains why there were no translations into Catalan from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

In 1832 a Catalan exile in London, Josep Melcior Prat i Colom, sponsored by the British and Foreign Bible Society, translated the New Testament, which was published afterwards in 1836 in Barcelona and again in 1888 in Madrid as the (Lo Nou Testament de nostre Senyor Jesu-Christ).

List of Bible translators

Jaume de Montjuich, 13th century
Bonifaci Ferrer (Valencia 1350-1417), 1478
Joan RoÃÂs de Corella, 15th century psalter
Josep Melcior Prat i Colom (1779-1855)
Pau and Samuel Sais, 2000

20th century to present

In the twentieth century many new translations emerged, both Catholic and Protestant.

Catholic translations

1915-1925 Unfinished translation by Frederic Clascar (Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans): only Genesis (1915), Song of Songs (1918) and Exodus (1925)
1928-1929 El Nou Testament (Barcelona: Foment de Pietat Catalana)
1928-1948 La Sagrada BÃÂblia, by FundaciÃÂ³ BÃÂblica Catalana (Barcelona: Alpha); started in 1927 (published in 15 individual volumes, also known as "BÃÂblia de CambÃÂ³", as it was funded by Francesc CambÃÂ³). There are several translators, among them: Carles Riba, Carles CardÃÂ³ or Josep Maria MillÃÂ s i Vallicrosa.
1926-1987 La BÃÂblia: versiÃÂ³ dels textos originals i notes pels Monjos de Montserrat: by the Monks of Montserrat, in 28 volumes. Other editions based on it have been published, in one volume and with some textual variations
1968 La Sagrada BÃÂblia, 2nd Edition: a new translation in one volume, reprinted some times by FundaciÃÂ³ BÃÂblica Catalana. It is a different translation from the 1928-1948 version from the same publisher.
1980 Nou Testament (Barcelona: Claret), by Jaume Sidera i Plana

Protestant translations

1988 Nou Testament: the New Testament, by the InstituciÃÂ³ BÃÂblica EvangÃÂ¨lica de Catalunya, with the help of the International Bible Society
2000 La BÃÂblia: la Sagrada Escriptura en llengua catalana; also La BÃÂblia del 2000or BÃÂblia EvangÃÂ¨lica Catalana (BEC), translated by Pau Sais and Samuel Sais ([Barcelona]: InstituciÃÂ³ BÃÂblica EvangÃÂ¨lica de Catalunya), with some editions
2009 La Santa bÃÂblia o les Santes Escriptures (London: Trinitarian Bible Society), from the Massoretic text

Ecumenical translation

For the Ecumenical translation, Catholic and Protestant translators worked together. However, two separate translations of the Bible still emerged- the Catholic edition included deuterocanonical texts, while the Protestant edition did not.

1993 BÃÂblia Catalana Interconfessional (BCI), by AssociaciÃÂ³ BÃÂblica de Catalunya, Editorial Claret, and Societats BÃÂbliques Unides, with some reprints.
2004 Evangelis: de Marc, Mateu, Lluc i Joan, amb els fets dels ApÃÂ²stols, la Carta de Pau als romans i el LLibre de L'Apocalipsi (Barcelona: Proa), translated by Joan F. Mira in a literary and philological way, religiously neutral.

Jehovah's Witnesses

2016 TraducciÃÂ³ del Nou MÃÂ³n de les Escriptures Gregues Cristianes (Selters, Germany).