History and Lineage of the English Bible

1450BC 900BC 500BC 400BC 300 to 200BC 150BC Dead Sea Scrolls written 30AD 90AD
OT

Archaic Hebrew
OT

1: ORIGINS
partOT

3: post KING JAMES

Hebrew 1611AD English
OT+A+NT

Aramaic
Daniel and Ezra

Latin

Greek

Square Script Hebrew

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

OT+A

Greek Septuagint
copy errors
OT+A

1782AD
Jesus spoke Aramaic
NT+L

OT+NT

from 500AD Masoretic Text

Robert Aitken
First US Printing King James Version without Apocrypha

from Codex S

Writings in Slavonic Greek Orthodox Greek about Jesus

NT+L

1842AD 1867AD 1873AD

Inspired Version (1833) by Joseph Smith, Church of the Latter Day Saints

OT+NT

OT+NT

English Hexaplex
7 column printing of Greek plus 6 English

English Hexaplex
7 column printing of Greek plus 6 English

Origen

300AD

rationalises and corrects Greek Septaugint

OT+NT

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

Eusebius of Caesarea
defines Canon Emp Constantine 322

1881-5AD 1885AD Apocrypha removed from the King James Bible 1901AD

OT+NT

From TR and other fragments

Textus Receptus (TR)

Oxford edition is considered definitive TR

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

(B) 350AD Codex Vaticanus (S) Codex Siniaticus [oldest NT surviving]

OT+A

NT+L

OT+NT

LATIN Codex B, S, A

American Standard
based on the Revised

383AD 397AD Council of Carthage (397) & Hippo(393) fix NT cannon 450AD 600AD 680AD Caedmon translates
stories to Anglo Saxon

OT+A

+NT

1904AD

NT

Jeromes Latin Vulgate

20 Century NT
Greek literal translation

Rome says Latin only

OT

Masoretic Text
vowel and accent standardisation

1934AD 1947AD Dead Sea Scrolls discovered Hebrew

NT

Riverside NT
Translation in todays language

Greek

Alfreds translation 995AD Kingthe venacular into

2: BEGINNINGS
OT+A+NT

1382AD
of 1439-43 Council NTFlorence defines 27books

4: post DEAD SEA SCROLLS

1952AD
OT+NT A

Wycliffe Bible First English

Wycliffes bones were ground down to dust.

1455AD GUTENBERG INVENTS PRINTING

OT+A+NT

Gutenberg Bible
First printed book is a 2 vol. Bible in Latin

Revised Standard
NCC in USA sponsor. Strong Greek basis.

1516AD Erasmus parallel Greek / Latin Bible 1522AD Luthers&German NT (Greek Hebrew origin) 1525AD
NT

OT+A+NT

Textus Receptus (TR)

Typesetable Greek over 200 versions.

1959AD

OT+NT

Berkeley Bible

Tyndale: NT
Tyndale was burned at the stake in 1537.

1961AD 1965AD 1971AD

OT+A+NT

New English
CoS inspired. Contemporary. Abstracted from modernism's.

OT+A+NT

Vulgate 1965
Revised Vulgate approved by Vatican Council 2.

OT+NT

1535AD 1537AD 1539AD 1546AD Council of Trent starts 1550AD 1560AD 1568AD
OT+A+NT

OT+A+NT

New American Standard Bible

Literal translation.

Myles Coverdale
1st Complete English Bible (80 books)

OT+NT

Thomas Matthew
A Revision of Tyndales Bible.

Living Bible
OT+A+NT
Liberal translation seen as too free by purists.

Taverners
Thomas Matthew minus notes.

GREAT BIBLE
1st Authorised Version.

OT+A+NT

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

1976AD
OT+A+NT

OT+NT

Good News
Simple vocabulary and plain use of English. (TEV)

Stephanus TR
Major landmark in interpretation and accuracy.

OT+A+NT

GENEVA
Written in Geneva by exiled reformers. First Study Bible.

1978AD

OT+NT

New International
Contemporary phrase by phrase. (NIV)

BISHOPs
2nd Authorised. The Geneva minus antipapal study notes.

1982AD

OT+NT

New King James

New Bible in King James Version style.

surrenders 1582AD Romeonly edict. Latin

1609/10

OT+A+NT

Douay / Rheim
First, and root Catholic Bible

1611AD

OT+A+NT

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

KEY: date Important historical events.

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