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Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

Logo: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

German religious foundation

The Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft ("German Bible Society") is a religious foundation regulated by public law. It is involved in publishing and in spreading the message of the Bible. The Society publishes the Bible in the original languages and in translation, as well as the texts of the Apocrypha and scholarly works in biblical studies.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1981Founded1
  • HeadquartersStuttgart1
  • Websitewww.die-bibel.de
  • Legal formkirchliche Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts1

The Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft ("German Bible Society") is a religious foundation regulated by public law. It is involved in publishing and in spreading the message of the Bible.2

The story

In 1965, independent regional Bible Societies came together as the Protestant Bible Organisation. The German Bible Society was formed in 1981 when this organization joined with the German Bible Foundation, made up of the Bible Societies of the Protestant Churches of the German states. The Society is based in the Möhringen district of Stuttgart. Its origins can be traced back to, among other things, the Canstein Bible Institution, founded in 1710.

Published books

The German Bible Society's publishing operations cover more than 700 books and other products, of which 300 are Bible editions. It distributes more than 400,000 Bibles annually, mainly Martin Luther's translation of the Bible and the modern Good News Bible. The Society publishes the internationally accepted base texts for Bible translation: the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, the Novum Testamentum Graece and the Greek New Testament. Its publications also include Children's Bibles, electronic Bibles and Bibles in other formats.

It also offers an online Bible dictionary compiled by subject experts.

Novum Testamentum Graece Nestle-Aland.

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

Stuttgart Vulgate

Plisch, Uwe-Karsten (2007). Das Thomasevangelium. Originaltext mit Kommentar. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-438-05128-8.

Read the full text

Handkonkordanz zum griechischen Neuen Testament, A. Schmoller

Konkordanz zum hebräischen Alten Testament, G. Lisowsky

From Wikipedia’s article on Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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