Holy Bible Malayalam for Android

11 things about Holy Bible Malayalam

1. Kayamkulam Philippose Ramban who was a Malankara Syrian Christian monk firstly translated few books of Holy Bible from Syriac to Malayalam.

2. The first attempt to translate bible into Malayalam was done by Kayamkulam Philipose Ramban with the support of Mor Dionatius the Great and Rev.

3. After the Ramban Bible, it was Benjamin Bailey who continued the effort to transale the Bible to Malayalam and finally translated it enirely.

4. Claudius Buchanan, a missionary who visited Kerala in the early 19th century, persuaded church leaders to translate the holy text into Malayalam and gave guidance to local scholars.

5. Timapah completed the New Testament in 1813, but this was found to include vocabulary known only to Syriac Christians and not to the general Malayalam population.

6. Translations of the Bible into Malayalam began from 1806, and have been to some extent influential on the development of the modern language.

7. Bible Society of India (then known as an Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society) paid for 500 copies to be printed in Bombay in 1811.

8. 1780-1850) also translated parts of the Bible into Malayalam.

9. Using the Tamil version translated by Johann Philipp Fabricius, they made a Malayalam copy.

10. Now this Bible is known as Ramban Bible.

11. Hermann Gundert updated Bailey's version and produced the first Malayalam-English dictionary (1872).