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v. t. e. The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James Version by 51 years. [ 1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare, [ 2] Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne and others.
King James Only movement. The First Page of the Book of Genesis in the 1611 printing of the KJV. The King James Only movement (also known as King James Onlyism or KJV Onlyism) asserts the belief that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is superior to all other translations of the Bible. Adherents of the King James Only movement, mostly ...
The complete Darby Bible, including Darby's 3rd edition New Testament and his students' Old Testament, was first published in 1890. [1] Darby's purpose was, as he states in the preface to his English NT, to make a modern translation for the unlearned who have neither access to manuscript texts nor training and knowledge of ancient languages of ...
de Holanda, Francisco (1545), "The First Day of Creation", De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines. " Let there be light " is an English translation of the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר ( yehi 'or) found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase ...
Book of Jasher (Pseudo-Jasher) – an 18th-century literary forgery which purports to be an English translation of the lost Book of Jasher. Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible. Sefer haYashar (midrash) – a Hebrew midrash, also known as The Book of Jasher, named after the lost Book of Jasher. Yehimilk inscription - uses the same or ...
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English translation of the Bible (not just the Old, or New Testament ), and the first complete printed translation into English (cf. Wycliffe's Bible in manuscript). The later editions ( folio and quarto) published in 1537 were the first ...
Bible translations into Swedish. There are remarkably few Bible translations into Swedish that have been made before the last two centuries. [ 1] The Latin common Bible is known to have been used by the Catholic Church during the Christian part of the middle ages, but at least paraphrases in Swedish of some parts of the Bible were made at the ...
t. e. The Old English Bible translations are the partial translations of the Bible prepared in medieval England into the Old English language. The translations are from Latin texts, not the original languages. Many of these translations were in fact Bible glosses, prepared to assist clerics whose grasp of Latin was imperfect and circulated in ...