80 Popular Scripture Products of 2016

This was a starting point for listing some of the scripture products and scripture based products produced by and for minority language communities (and some major languages too!). Inclusion does not always mean global endorsement)

Can you help expand this list further to include additional products and product types plus details of how further translation and adaptation is possible and who to contact?

Posted on map.bloomfire.com this is visible to the general public so please don't post anything that producers wouldn't want to make public.

Some of the statistics as to how many languages a product exists in are still from an earlier version.

My list is divided into:

**A. Print Scripture Products – large or small selections of translated scripture
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**B. Printed scripture based products – derived products based on scripture
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**C. Video products – including anything where the pictures move
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D. Audio products – kind of like videos only the picture are in your head

E. New Media – anything that doesn’t fit into the categories above

Print Scripture Products

(each of these might also be distributed as electronic files eg PDFs or within Bible software)

1.Portions (whole books)
2.NT
3.**NT +**other books/selections
4.Bible - SIL and UBS both try and track details of published Bibles, New Testaments, and Portions. The Forum of Bible Agencies has a public site http://find.biblewhich attempts to list and link to where these can be obtained. The Digital Bible Library is working to make scriptures freely available in digital formats and currently links to material in nearly 2000 or the 3000 languages known to have some scripture (not all are yet available digitally)

5.Lectionaries - http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/languages.html provides a list of translations of the Anglican Prayer Book into 200+ languages . I'm not currently aware of other comprehensive listing or directory of lectionaries for other traditions/denomination. Suggested links welcome.

6.Selections eg Christmas story, Easter, selections of proverbs / parables - in some major languages there are many thousands of products. In thousands of languages there isn't much.

7.Verses and ‘micro selections’ eg

a.verses on calendars,

b.book marks, posters,

c.T-shirts, banners,

d.shop signs,

e.business cards,

f.(or in one town in the Philippines printed by law on the back of all taxis)

8.Content within local print media (eg column or article in local newspaper or church publications)

Printed scripture based products

For each of the items in section A the majority of the written text would be scripture. I'm using 'scripture based products' to mean other materials incorporating translated scripture, material summarizing scripture (eg a simplified retelling of a story), or material inspired by scripture eg hymns and songs in the local language that both carry a scripture message and help people use their language in church settings.
(again each of these might also be distributed as electronic files eg PDFs or apps)

1. Hymn books -(I've found a couple of examples of apps containing hymn books but haven't yet established whether they are observing copyright)

2. Bible study materials

3. Material for pastors

4. Simplified Children's Bibles

5. Bible overviews

6. Sunday School material (children and adult)

7. Comic books eg

a.Jesus Messiah Comic book ( 60+ languages in 2015 https://www.facebook.com/jmpbk) ,

b. http://freeillustratedbible.com/ ,

c. http://distantshores.org/openbiblestories , and any versions using local art.

d. Story of Jesus booklet based on the Action Bible. Publishers David C Cook customise selections of pictures taking culture into account see – http://www.davidccook.org/soj/design.html . In partnership with Youth for Christ International the booklet is also available as an app in 49 languages http://www.thestoryofjesusapp.org

8. Bible Helps

9. Reading plans

10. Translations of standard tracts (eg http://sgmlifewords.com )

11. locally produced tracts

12. Themed seminars / studies eg

a. Kandes Story (113+ languages in 2015 http://www.scripture-engagement.org/content/kandes-story )

b. Healing the Wounds of Trauma (150+ languages http://www.scripture-engagement.org/content/healing-wounds-trauma )

Video products

1. Jesus film (1400+ languages)

2. Other JF products: (stats from http://www.jesusfilm.org/about/learn-more/statistics.html[http://www.jesusfilm.org/about/learn-more/statistics.html](http://www.jesusfilm.org/about/learn-more/statistics.htmlâ) )
"The Story of Jesus" (audio): 430 languages
"The Story of Jesus for Children":160 languages
"Magdalena: Released From Shame":153 languages
"My Last Day":133 languages
"Following Jesus":10 languages
"Walking with Jesus":11 languages
"Rivka":12 languages

3. Luke Video - a longer version of the Jesus Film with the full text.

4.Genesis video

5.Acts Video

6.The Hope Video (over 60 languages completed with 30+ others in progress so far see www.thehopeproject.com and www.hopepartnering.com

7.God’s Story video (300+ languages www.gods-story.org)

8.short clips from any of the above shared on phones, youtube etc

9.Lives of the Prophets series

10.The Prophet Story (7 min animation https://www.youtube.com/user/theprophetsstory/videos )

11. Deditos - a kids video series using finger puppets

12. short films (eg parables, songs, evangelistic messages) - see www.indigitube.tv and https://kidshubtv.com

13.illustrated scripture readings (scripture read with back ground illustrations)

14.local dramatized readings (acted out)

15.videos of locally produced adaptations of Bible stories (including videos of bible storying sets)

16.Scripture songs

17.Sermons

18.Testimonies

Audio products

1.Jesus Film Audio drama (430 languages)

2.Oral bible story sets

3.Radio dramas

4.Global Recordings standard products (over 6000 languages and dialects)

5.Scripture songs

6.Sermons

7.Testimonies

8.Radio programs via major networks (eg TWR, FEBA)

9.Local radio (programming on existing stations or new stations using internet or short range broadcasting)

New Media

Many more products to add here. I'm focusing mainly on ones that are free to distribute and do not contain lots of advertising.

1. (many of the above can be shared or promoted via the web but there are a few very new things appearing)

2. SMS texts

3. Twittered verses

4. Facebook posts and shared images with scripture verses (YouVersion includes a tool to do this https://help.youversion.com/customer/portal/articles/1922434-how-to-create-and-share-verse-images-on-ios?b_id=204 )

5. Software and Smartphone Bible apps

a. Youversion

b. Bible.is

c. Scripture App Builder - http://software.sil.org/scriptureappbuilder/ for software. 100+ published at https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Wycliffe+Bible+Translators,+Inc . Many others published on other stores.

d.BARTAndroid

e.MySword - http://www.mysword.info

f.Unfolding Word - http://distantshores.org/openbiblestories

g.Xulsword scripture software

h.Many, many more software options (please add any that support minority languages)

6.Other Smartphone apps (lectionaries, memory verses, scripture based games, any other Christian app localised to the language.)