Marlies ter Borg-Neervoort ( born 24 December 1948, Pladjoe, Palembang) [1] is a Dutch philosopher, editor and author. Her work focuses principally on the study of texts in the Bible and Qu'ran. She is the author of Koran en Bijbel in Verhalen (Qu'ran and Bible in Stories) and Sharing Mary: Bible and Qu'ran side by side. Both works focus on comparative textual analysis in both holy books. [2] [3] [4]
Vlagtwedde is a village in the very southeast of Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. It lies on the Dutch border with the German state of Lower Saxony to the east.
Conrad Busken Huet was a Dutch pastor, journalist and literary critic.
Koninklijke Atletiek Associatie Gent, often simply known as Gent or by their nickname De Buffalo's, is a Belgian professional sports club, based in the city of Ghent, East Flanders. Their football team is the best known section within the club and has been playing in the Belgian First Division A since the 1989–90 season. They won the national league once, in 2014–15, in addition to four Belgian Cup victories. Gent played their home matches in the Jules Ottenstadion in Gentbrugge from 1920 until 2013, when they moved to the Ghelamco Arena. Their team colours are blue and white. The principal sponsor is Baloise.
Anne de Vries was a Dutch teacher and writer, particularly famous in the Netherlands for his novels of regional life.
The Statenvertaling or Statenbijbel was the first translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek languages into Dutch. It was ordered by the Synod of Dordrecht in 1618, financed by the government of the Protestant Dutch Republic and first published in 1637.
Ethel Portnoy was a Dutch writer of prose, who wrote essays, columns, short stories, travel stories and several novels.
Johannes Juliaan Gijsbert "Hans" Jansen was a Dutch politician, scholar of contemporary Islam and author.
The Bijbels Museum is a nomadicmuseum that was, up until July 2020, located in the Cromhouthuizen on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. Since then, the Biblical Museum produces travelling exhibitions that are centered around Biblical stories and themes. These Biblical stories and themes function as a reference point and inspiration for the travelling exhibition. These exhibitions often link to other religions and religious movements. The Biblical Museum aims to tell stories that are inspiring and reflect on meaning making. The Biblical Museum is a museum for everyone, for both believers and non-believers.
Bible translations into Dutch have a history that goes back to the Middle Ages. The oldest extant Bible translations into the Dutch language date from the Middle Dutch (Diets) period.
Guus Kuijer is a Dutch author. He wrote books for children and adults, and is best known for the Madelief series of children's books. For his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" he won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2012, the biggest prize in children's literature. As a children's writer he was one of five finalists for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2008.
Willem Philippe Maria "Wim" Zaal was a Dutch journalist, essayist, translator and literary critic. He was literary editor of Elsevier for years.
Marga Minco, for some time known as Marga Faes, was a Dutch journalist and writer, and a Holocaust survivor. She married Dutch poet Bert Voeten.
Jacqueline Chabbi is a historian and a professor of Arab Studies at the University of Paris-VIII. Her research concerns the history of the medieval Muslim world.
The Sultanate of Palembang Darussalam was a sultanate in Indonesia whose capital was the city of Palembang in the southern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was proclaimed in 1659 by Susuhunan Abdurrahman (1659–1706) and dissolved by the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies on October 7, 1823. In 1825, its last ruler, Sultan Ahmad Najamuddin, was arrested and sent into exile on the island of Banda Neira in the Moluccas.
Operation Boomerang was a partially successful air raid by the United States Army Air Forces' (USAAF) XX Bomber Command against oil refining facilities in Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies during World War II. The attack took place on the night of 10/11 August 1944 and involved attempts to bomb an oil refinery at Palembang and lay mines to interdict the Musi River.
The Bible Society for the Netherlands and Flanders is a non-denominational Bible society in the Netherlands and Flanders devoted to translating, publishing, and distributing the Bible at affordable costs. The society was formed from the fusion of the Dutch Bible Society and the Flemish Bible Society in 2021 and is currently based in Haarlem.
François "Frank" Scholten was a Dutch photographer and author.
Cees Houtman, Cornelis Houtman is a Dutch emeritus professor of Old Testament at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen-1. He published on the Pentateuch, the interpretation of the Book of Exodus, the history of Dutch Bible translations and the Old Testament study in the Netherlands. After 2006 he focused on topics of book and church history, and the reception of the Bible in Dutch-language literature from the eighteenth century onwards.
The NBV21 is an ecumenical Dutch-language Bible translation, created by the Dutch-Flemish Bible Society and published in 2021. The NBV21 is a revised version of the New Bible Translation of 2004. In comparison to the NBV, around 12,000 edits were made to the NBV21. A major difference was the implementation of highly-requested reverential capitalization, in addition to other edits motivated by new discoveries in Biblical studies. Reactions of readers to the previous version were also taken into account in the NBV21.
The Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling is an ecumenical Dutch-language Bible translation, published by the Dutch-Flemish Bible Society and the Catholic Bible Foundation in 2004. A revision of the NBV, the NBV21, was released in late 2021.