page_title: Bible Society of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei
section_title: Establishing independent national Bible Societies
hierarchical_section_title: Bible Society of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei / History / Establishing independent national Bible Societies
caption_attribution_description: English: Family tree of the Bible Societies in the Malay Archipelago
context_page_description: The Bible Society of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei was a nondenominational Christian organisation committed to translating and distributing the Bible in Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei. It was the successor organisation to the Bible Society of Malaya, a branch of the National Bible Society of Scotland. The Bible Society of Malaya prior to 1948 was a branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
  The BSSMB existed in this form until the Malaysian auxiliary established itself as the Bible Society of Malaysia in 1986 and the BSSMB was renamed the Bible Society of Singapore and Brunei. in 1992, the BSSMB was reorganised and renamed as the Bible Society of Singapore.
context_section_description: In 1969, the Rev Khoo Siaw Hua, became the president of the Society and spearheaded the establishment of an independent Bible society to take over the work of the former agency. In 1970, the BSSMB was officially registered and Khoo was elected the first president of the new Society with Hsieh acting as General Secretary.
  In the same year, the BSSMB initiated a new Malay language translation of the Bible using the dynamic equivalence method employed by the translators of the Good News Bible. The New Testament was completed and published in 1974 and the whole Bible published in 1987 as the Alkitab Berita Baik (Today's Malay Version).
  The Malaysian auxiliary of the BSSMB started initiating effort to establish a national Bible Society in 1984 and in 1986 was officially registered with the Government of Malaysia as the Bible Society of Malaysia. The BSSMB then changed its name to the Bible Society of Singapore and Brunei. In 1992, the Society was again reorganised and registered with the Government of Singapore as the Bible Society of Singapore.
caption: Timeline of the development of the various Bible Societies in the Malay Archipelago
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