Japanese Biblical Studies

Here’s good news for users of Accordance Bible Software, one of the leading apps for Bible study. The two most popular and widely used Japanese Bible versions are now available as Accordance modules.

Accordance added the New Japanese Bible (新改訳聖書 – Shinkaiyaku Seisho) sometime last year.

Includes the Old and New Testaments

Accordance added the New Interconfessional Translation Bible (新共同訳聖書 – Shinkyodoyaku Seisho) sometime this month.

Includes the Old and New Testaments, and the Deuterocanonical Books

Which Japanese Bible version do you think Accordance should add next? 

The Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan (Nippon Oriento Gakkai), or 『オリエント』(Oriento), has nearly 50 years of scholarly research freely available online.

PDF articles from volumes 5 (1962) to 51 (2008) can be accessed through English menus on the journal’s page at J-STAGE (Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic).

Most of the articles are written in Japanese, of course, but most of these include English abstracts (at the beginning of the article in some volumes, at the end in others).

The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan has also posted PDF images of volume covers going back to 2003. The covers helpfully include bilingual tables of contents, making this an easy way to scan the most recent article titles: Continue Reading…