ANCESTRY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting

and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly

equipped for every good work.2 Timothy 3:16-17

Biblical Backgrounds

Terms

Primary Translation: translation out of the original language

Secondary Translation: translation out of other languages

BC: Before Christ

AD: Anno Domini (Latin)

How We Got The Bible

_________________: Greek translation of the Old Testament – 250-100BC

4BC-33AD: Jesus quotes the ____ New Testament authors write the

Gospels, history, and epistles from 45-100AD quoting from all but eight of the OT books.

Old Testament Apocrypha Evidence Latin, Coptic, and Syriac Translations:

200-300AD

OT

Septuagint(LXX)

How We Got The Bible

NT Books are collected, reproduced and circulated throughout the Mediterranean

___ NT Books are confirmed in the East and West

Formally confirmed at the ___________________in 397AD

Jerome starts translating into Latin in 410 and finishes 25 years later: ________________

Latin Vulgate

Synod of Carthage

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How We Got The Bible

___________: Jewish Scribes make copies of the OT Scriptures – dating between 500-900Masoretes

Birth of Middle English

In 1066AD a revised English language, Middle English emerges.

The first English translation is credited to ________________ in 1384.

The revised Wycliffe version is done by_______________, Wycliffe’s associate, and standard until 1525.

John Wycliffe

John Purvey

Birth of New English

The _________ of learning making the study of Hebrew and Greek more accessible.

The _______________ = mass production.

First book ever printed: ______________________Gutenberg Bible

Printing press

revival

The 1500’s

Erasmus translates the ________________ in 1516.

______________: Nailing “95 theses” to the church door in Wittenberg

Martin Luther

textus receptus

The 1500’s

___________________________________: William Tyndale – translates the NT from Greek – OT from Hebrew – 1525-1536.

_____________________: 1535AD Miles Coverdale dedicates his Bible to Anne Boleyn

_________________: 1537AD Translated by John Rogers under the pen name Thomas Matthew

The Father of the English Bible

Matthew’s Bible

The Coverdale Bible

The 1500’s

The Great Bible: 1539AD – Placed in every church

1555: Queen Mary bans protestant translations

__________________: 1560AD

__________________: 1568AD

The Geneva BibleThe Bishops Bible

King James Version

_______: KJV Commissioned

______: KJV Finished Also called the

___________________ Keeps everyone

content for more than 300 years.

Authorized Version

1611

1607

Disocveries!

Older Manuscripts are discovered ________________________: from 400AD ________________________: from 350AD ________________________: from 325AD ________________________: 1870 ________________________: 1948

Codex AlexandrinusCodex SinaiticusCodex VaticanusThe Revised VersionThe Dead Sea Scrolls

The Last 100 Years

1901: American Standard Version(ASV) 1952: Revised Standard Version(RSV) 1965: The Amplified Bible 1971: New American Standard Bible(NASB) 1971: The Living Bible 1976: The Good News Bible 1978: New International Version(NIV) 1982: New King James Version 1996: New Living Translation(NLT) 2002: The Message(MSG) 2004: Holman Christian Standard Bible(HCSB)

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

God Wrote A Book