LUTHER BIBLE, 1545 VERSION

The Luther Bible, 1545 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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+ Set bookmark

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