History and Lineage of the English Bible

[Pages:1]History and Lineage of the English Bible

1450BC OT

Archaic

900BC Hebrew

500BC 400BC

300 to 200BC

150BC

Dead Sea written

Scrolls

30AD

OT

Square Script Hebrew

90AD

300AD

350AD

Codex Codex

Vaticanus Siniaticus

(B) (S)

[oldest NT surviving]

partOT

Aramaic

Daniel and Ezra

1: ORIGINS

OT+A

Greek Septuagint

copy errors

OT+A

Origen

rationalises and corrects Greek Septaugint

Jesus spoke Aramaic

NT+L

Slavonic

Writings in

Greek Orthodox Greek about

Jesus

Armenian C5 Georgian C5 Old Latin Coptic C3 Ethiopic C4-5

NT+L

Eusebius of Caesarea

defines Canon Emp Constantine 322

OT+A

NT+L

LATIN

Codex B, S, A

383AD

397AD

Council of Carthage (397) Hippo(393) fix NT cannon

&

450AD

OT+A

+NT

Jerome's

Latin Vulgate

600AD

Rome says "Latin only"

680AD Caedmon translates

OT

Masoretic Text

vowel and accent standardisation

stories to Anglo Saxon

995AD

King Alfred's translation into the "venacular"

2: BEGINNINGS

1382AD

1439-43

Council defines

of Florence NT 27books

1455AD GUTENBERG INVENTS PRINTING

1516AD

Erasmus' parallel Greek / Latin Bible

1522AD

Luther's German NT (Greek & Hebrew origin)

OT+A+NT

Wycliffe Bible First English

Wycliffe's bones were ground down to dust.

OT+A+NT

Gutenberg Bible

First printed book is a 2 vol. Bible in Latin

OT+A+NT

Textus Receptus (TR)

Typesetable Greek over 200 versions.

1525AD

NT

Tyndale: NT

Tyndale was burned at the stake in 1537.

1535AD

1537AD

OT+A+NT

Thomas

Matthew

A Revision of

1539AD

Tyndale's Bible.

Taverner's

1546AD Council of Thomas Matthew Trent starts minus notes.

1550AD

1560AD

1568AD

1582AD

Rome surrenders Latin only edict.

1609/10

OT+A+NT

Myles Coverdale

1st Complete English Bible (80 books)

OT+A+NT

GREAT BIBLE

1st Authorised Version.

OT+A+NT

GENEVA

Written in Geneva by exiled reformers. First Study Bible.

OT+A+NT

Clementine

Triggered by Trent, published in 1592. Exclusive Latin bible.

OT+A+NT

Stephanus' TR

Major landmark in interpretation and accuracy.

BISHOP's

2nd Authorised. The Geneva minus antipapal study notes.

OT+A+NT

Douay / Rheim

First, and root "Catholic" Bible

1611AD

OT+A+NT

KING JAMES

3rd Authorised (KJV) Culmination of C16 translation work.

Hebrew English

Latin

Greek

3: post KING JAMES

1611AD

Hebrew

English

OT+A+NT

KING JAMES

3rd Authorised (KJV) Culmination of C16 translation work.

Latin

Greek

1782AD

from 500AD Masoretic Text

OT+NT

Robert Aitken

First US Printing King James Version without Apocrypha

from Codex S

1842AD

Inspired Version (1833)

1867AD by Joseph Smith, Church of the Latter Day Saints

1873AD

1881-5AD

1885AD

Apocrypha removed from the King James Bible

OT+NT

English Hexaplex

7 column printing of Greek plus 6 English

OT+NT

English Hexaplex

7 column printing of Greek plus 6 English

OT+NT

REVISED

First major attempt to translate rigorously. Work of 65 scholars.

From TR and other fragments

OT+NT

Textus Receptus (TR)

Oxford edition is considered definitive TR

1901AD

OT+NT

American Standard

based on the Revised

1904AD

NT

20 Century NT

Greek literal translation

1934AD

1947AD

Dead Sea Scrolls discovered

Hebrew

NT

Riverside NT

Translation in "today's" language

Greek

4: post DEAD SEA SCROLLS

1952AD 1959AD

OT+NT

A

Revised Standard

NCC in USA sponsor. Strong Greek basis.

OT+NT

Berkeley Bible

1961AD 1965AD 1971AD

1976AD 1978AD 1982AD

OT+A+NT

New English

CoS inspired. Contemporary. Abstracted from modernism's.

OT+NT

New American Standard Bible

Literal translation.

OT+A+NT

Vulgate 1965

Revised Vulgate approved by Vatican Council 2.

OT+NT

Living Bible

Liberal translation seen as too "free" by purists.

OT+NT

Good News

Simple vocabulary and plain use of English. (TEV)

OT+NT

New International

Contemporary phrase by phrase. (NIV)

OT+NT

New King James

New Bible in King James Version style.

KEY:

date

Important events.

historical

Main flows of style and source material

content

BIBLE NAME

Brief description and facts about version

OT: Old Testament A: Apocrypha NT: New Testament L: Laodiceans

language

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