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2700 BCE
Old Testament
The Hebrews kept a record of their history, and God's dealing with them, these were copied and gathered through generations as scriptures and writings. Its significance is it is the beginning of the Bible and is the first part of the Bible. -
50
New Testament
Early New Testaments writing are some of Paul's letters to individuals or groups of believers. It's significance gives us basically the second part of bible. -
400
Early Translations
Early translations began to emerge, the most important at the time was Jerome's Latin version. It became the official text of the time and English versions weren't even thought about yet. -
1280
The Septuagint translation
translated from Hebrews to Greek because Greek was the most common language at the time -
1380
First had written version of the Bible
John Wycliffe wrote the first translation of the Bible in English, significant because it is the first English written bible -
1450
First printed Bible
Johann Gutenberg created the first printed bible in Latin -
1496
John Colet translating bible to english for public
An oxford professor john Colet the son of translating it into English for his students at oxford. -
1534
Tyndale's New Testament
Henry VIII excommunicated by the pope severs English churches from Rome and becomes head of the church in England without any intention of reforming it. -
1537
Second Translation into English
John Roger went on to print the second complete English bible. It was however the first English Bible translated from under the original biblical language of Hebrew and Greek. This is significant because it was the second translation and it is spreading the English version -
King James Version was introduced
KJV was made because of the England churches wanted one translation read through the masses, Significant because it started spreading throughout the churches. -
Geneva Bible
It was the first bible to have numbered verses to the chapters -
Newer Revised version
The bible is revised to improve understanding and make a little more sense to it. -
American Standard Version
the American Standard Version was commonly known as the ASV, and was revised version of the old and new testament -
N.I.V
The New International Version was produced, which was offered as a translation into modern English -
English Standard Version
A major attempt was made to bridge the gap between the gap between the easier reading of the N.I.V and the better version to read of the N.AS.B
