The Luther Bible, 1912 version, including the Old Testament and the New Testament as an e-book app featuring German voice output (TextToSpeech).
● GERMAN TEXT
● GERMAN VOICE OUTPUT
The Luther Bible is a German language Bible translation from Hebrew and ancient Greek by Martin Luther. The New Testament was first published in 1522 and the complete Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, in 1534. The project absorbed Luther's later years. Thanks to the then recently-invented printing press, the result was widely disseminated and contributed significantly to the development of today's modern High German language.
While he was sequestered in the Wartburg Castle (1521–22) Luther began to translate the New Testament from ancient Greek into German in order to make it more accessible to all the people of the "Holy Roman Empire of the German nation." He translated from the Greek text, using Erasmus' second edition (1519) of the Greek New Testament, known as the Textus Receptus. Luther did not translate from the Latin Vulgate translation, which is the Latin translation officially used by the Roman Catholic Church. Like Erasmus, Luther had learned Greek at the Latin schools led by the Brethren of the Common Life (Erasmus in Deventer, the Netherlands, and Luther in Magdeburg). These lay brothers added Greek as a new subject to their curriculum in the late 15th century. At that time Greek was seldom taught even at universities.
To help him in translating into contemporary German, Luther would make forays into nearby towns and markets to listen to people speaking. He wanted to ensure their comprehension by translating as closely as possible to their contemporary language usage. His translation was published in September 1522, six months after he had returned to Wittenberg. In the opinion of the 19th century theologian and church historian Philip Schaff,
The richest fruit of Luther's leisure in the Wartburg, and the most important and useful work of his whole life, is the translation of the New Testament.
Contents:
Old Testament:
1: Genesis
2: Exodus
3: Leviticus
4: Numbers
5: Deuteronomy
6: Joshua
7: Judges
8: Ruth
9: 1 Samuel
10: 2 Samuel
11: 1 Kings
12: 2 Kings
13: 1 Chronicles
14: 2 Chronicles
15: Ezra
16: Nehemiah
17: Esther
18: Job
19: Psalms
20: Proverbs
21: Ecclesiastes
22: Song of Solomon
23: Isaiah
24: Jeremiah
25: Lamentations
26: Ezekiel
27: Daniel
28: Hosea
29: Joel
30: Amos
31: Obadiah
32: Jonah
33: Micah
34: Nahum
35: Habakkuk
36: Zephaniah
37: Haggai
38: Zechariah
39: Malachi
New Testament:
40: Matthew
41: Mark
42: Luke
43: John
44: Acts
45: Romans
46: 1 Corinthians
47: 2 Corinthians
48: Galatians
49: Ephesians
50: Philippians
51: Colossians
52: 1 Thessalonians
53: 2 Thessalonians
54: 1 Timothy
55: 2 Timothy
56: Titus
57: Philemon
58: Hebrews
59: James
60: 1 Peter
61: 2 Peter
62: 1 John
63: 2 John
64: 3 John
65: Jude
66: Revelation
This app is available as a FREE and a PRO version. The FREE edition includes ads which finance the development while the PRO edition is completely ad-free. Apart from that both versions are equal. You can first check out the FREE edition without any risk in order to to see if you like the app. If the ads annoy you or you just want to support this app's development, you can buy the PRO edition.
E-BOOK FEATURES:
● Standalone software - no eBook reader needed
● Daylight & nighttime colors
● Voice output (text to speech, TTS)
● Move to SD card
● Clickable table of contents
● English and German program language
● Contents rotate automatically (portrait/landscape)
● Fullscreen images on/off by long click
● Options menu
+ Help page
+ Settings page
- Text color
- Background color
- Text size
- Typeface
- Text padding
- Reset
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