Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] The first attempt to translate the Bible into Malayalam was made in 1806 by and, with the support of. Buchanan, a missionary who visited Kerala in the early 19th century, persuaded church leaders to translate biblical manuscripts into Malayalam and guided local scholars. At that time, Syriac was the liturgical language of Christians in Kerala. By 1807, Ittoop and Ramban—both Malankara Syrian Christian monks—had translated the four from Syriac into Malayalam, assisted by Timapah Pillay. They then translated the Tamil version by into Malayalam.

The (then an Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society) paid for 500 copies to be printed in Bombay in 1811. 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. This translation is now known as the Ramban Bible. In 1817, the Church Missionary Society of India provided to translate the Bible into Malayalam. He completed his translation of the New Testament in 1829 and the Old Testament in 1841.

Updated Bailey's version and produced the first - dictionary in 1872. Phillipose Rampan (c. 1780-1850) also translated parts of the Bible into Malayalam. Modern versions [ ] Protestant [ ] Sathyavedhapusthakam [ ] The Kerala Auxiliary (established in 1956) made minor revisions to the Malayalam Old Version in 1910 called Sathyavedhapushthakam (സത്യവേദപുസ്തകം), which became the standard version for most protestant denominations. This version translates the as (യഹോവ) throughout the Old Testament. The Complete Sathyavedhapusthakam in Unicode was published online in 2004 by Nishad H.

Sathyavedhapusthakam was published online in 2014 in various digital formats. Sears. New India Bible Version [ ] translated and published the New India Bible Version (NIBV) in Malayalam in 1997.

The World Bible Translation Center (WBTC) has published Malayalam bible for free download.Either you can download the whole book or each gospel one by one.All editions are in PDF format. Malayalam Bible books: choose the book you wish to read or listen to.

Easy To Read Version [ ] The World Bible Translation Center India provides the. Catholic [ ] POC Bible [ ] In 1967, the Pastoral Orientation Center of the began a new translation of the Bible; it was completed by 1981, and is known as the POC Bible. This version translates the as Lord (കർത്താവ്) in the main text and (യാഹ്‌വെ) in various footnotes. It is available online in various digital formats. Syriac Orthodox [ ] 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. Syriac Orthodox Bible Society and Vishudha Grandham [ ] The Syriac Orthodox Bible Society of India published the 'Vishuddha Grandham' (വിശുദ്ധ ഗ്രന്ഥം), a translation of the Syriac Peshitta Bible into Malayalam. It was translated by famous scholar Arch Cor-Episcopa.

It is available online in various digital formats. Vishudha Grandham is also available in and platform. Vishudha Grandham Audio bible is available in Other Works [ ] Vishudha Sathyavedapusthakom [ ] The Vishudha Sathyavedapusthakom by Mathews Vergis in Malayalam was released in 2000. It includes various appendices providing commentary about biblical characters and events.

It renders the Greek term kyrios (Lord) as (യഹോവ) in the New Testament when quoting Old Testament verses containing the Tetragrammaton. The translator assumes that Tetragrammaton originally appeared in New Testament but was later replaced by Christian copyists with Lord ( Kyrios in Greek) following the Jewish tradition evident in later copies of. Free Bibles India [ ] In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Malayalam translation online. New World Translation [ ] In 2009, released the New Testament in Malayalam, and in 2016 the complete was released. It is available online in various digital formats. Usage of different versions in churches [ ] Most churches in use Bibles in Malayalam.,, and use the version.