The Schlachter-Bibel is a

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translation of the

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by Franz Eugen Schlachter, first translated from the

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text of the Bible in 1905. Schlachter was a preacher of the Evangelische Gesellschaft in

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influenced by the

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. Schlachter initially published the

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in 1893. In 1905, the so-called ''Miniaturbibel'' was published, the first German language Bible version in the twentieth century. The Miniatur-Bible was one of the smallest Bibles ever printed in the German language. It is very thin with very legible printing. The Bible would fit in any of the pockets of a man's jacket. This was followed by the house-bible (''Hausbibel''), published in 1907, and the hand-bible (''Handbibel'') published in 1908. The last edition of the original ''Miniaturbibel'' was published in 1911. The translation was concordant, and at the same time, the language flowed well. The reader could discern the meaning of the original text. By 1911, the year of Schlachter's death, he had completed 13 editions of his Bible. In 1918, two Swiss pastors named Linder and Kappeler revised the Schlachter Bible, and the Genfer Bibelgesellschaft led a new revision of the translation in 1951, although it was a light revision. The text was faithful to Schlachter's original and had only been edited slightly. In 2003, the last revision, called the Schlachter Version 2000, was completed. This version follows the same approach as the original Miniaturbibel, but is also very accurate to the Greek and Hebrew original. The new edition also includes many references. All editions of the Schlachter Bible came in three formats: there was a pocket-edition, a hand-edition, and a greater family-edition.

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