(TB-1917) Tradução Brasileira

The Brazilian Translation was the first Protestant project to translate the whole Bible carried out in Brazil. The work began in 1903.

The committee brought together Brazilian pastors and missionaries. The Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil names Hugh Clarence Tucker in the lead and, among others, Eduardo Campos Pereira, Hipólito de Oliveira Campos, Antônio Bandeira Trajano, William Cabell Brown and John R. Smith.

Language consultants helped with Portuguese syntax. The Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil itself names Rui Barbosa, José Veríssimo and Heráclito Graça.

The New Testament appeared in 1908. The Old Testament was finished in 1914, but the complete Bible was printed only in 1917, during the First World War.

Wikipedia describes the translation as formal equivalence: the Old Testament from the Masoretic text and the New Testament from Nestle’s Greek text.

In the early twentieth century it was meant as a reading made in Brazil, in the Portuguese of that time, beside the Almeida text that came from European printings.

Around 1950 interest fell and the edition went out of print. In 2010 the Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil reissued the Brazilian Translation with updated spelling and different proper names.

The 2010 reprint is copyrighted by the Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil. It is not the text this page reads.

The historical 1917 text is what Comentarionista presents under the abbreviation TB-1917. The language and the proper names are those of that printing.

The paragraphs above follow Wikipedia and the Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil page. The links below open those two sources.