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Jump to: navigation, search The Artists For Israel Bible Society was founded in 1981 "to use media of all kinds" to promote the Jewish Scriptures for the benefit of all.
The first item on the agenda of the new not-for-profit organization was to create a media Bible. "The Rabbi From Tarsus" was presented as a mono-drama in which the Shliach Shaul in his prison cell remembers his encounter with the martyr Stephen. This sets up Stephen's speech before the Sanhedrin, which recapitulates the story of the Tanakh. Thus with one actor and one set, nearly the entire Bible could be presented on stage and on film, which over the next two decades came to pass in Israel, Australia, Africa, Europe, America and all over the world with various actors and film crews.
The task of translating and publishing and distributing printed Bibles, as opposed to the above media Bible, also unfolded in the same time period.
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1 Early years 2 Later years 3 External links
[edit] Early years
Dr Phillip Goble, a professional actor with a doctorate and the graduate school mentoring of Dr Donald McGavran, left his home in Beverly Hills, California, and his studies in Pasadena, and eventually made his way to New York City, where he set up an office in 1979, and where he set about founding the AFII not-for-profit organization.
[edit] Later years Once the New Testament was published in 1996, work became to turn this translation into the Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, Ladino, Russian, and French versions.
The Entire Bible was published in 2002.
[edit] External links
Artists For Israel International