History of the English Bible

John Whycliffe's Bible

Mar 24, 1382

This bible had two editions. The translation came from Latin Vulgate. Signifigance: All copies were hand written and broke down the powers of the Roman Catholic Church.

John Hus

Mar 24, 1415

promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution.

Johann Gutenberg

Mar 24, 1450

invented the printing press. first book to ever be printed was a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.

Thomas Linacre

Mar 24, 1490

decided to learn Greek. After reading the Gospels in Greek, and comparing it to the Latin Vulgate, he wrote in his diary, “Either this (the original Greek) is not the Gospel… or we are not Christians.”

John Colet

Mar 24, 1496

Oxford professor and the son of the Mayor of London, started reading the New Testament in Greek and translating it into English for his students at Oxford, and later for the public at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Erasmus

Mar 24, 1516

so moved to correct the corrupt Latin Vulgate with the help of printer John Froben, he published a Greek-Latin Parallel New Testament. The Latin part was not the corrupt Vulgate, but his own fresh rendering of the text from the more accurate and reliable Greek.

Martin Luther

Mar 24, 1517

had a small head-start on Tyndale, as Luther declared his intolerance for the Roman Church’s corruption on Halloween in 1517, by nailing his 95 Theses of Contention to the Wittenberg Church door

Thyndal's New Testament

Mar 24, 1525

Translation was based off the greek text. Signifigance: First english new testament derived from Greek text.

Myles Coverdale

Mar 24, 1535

loyal disciples the last six years of Tyndale's life, and they carried the English Bible project forward and even accelerated it. Coverdale finished translating the Old Testament.

John Rogers

Mar 24, 1537

print the second complete English Bible in 1537. It was, however, the first English Bible translated from the original Biblical languages of Hebrew & Greek.

Thomas Cranmer

Mar 24, 1539

hired Myles Coverdale to publish the "Great Bible". It became the first English Bible authorized for public use, as it was distributed to every church, chained to the pulpit, and a reader was even provided so that the illiterate could hear the Word of God in plain English.

Geneva Bible

Mar 24, 1560

Translated from Greek and Hebrew texts. Signifigance: The bible hat Pilgrims brought to the Americas. Bible used by Shakespeare.

King James Version of the Bible

Mar 24, 1611

A large group of scholors led to the translation of this version. This was maily just a revision of all the past versions. Signifigance: Still used by alot of churches today.

Noah Webster

Mar 24, 1833

ust a few years after producing his famous Dictionary of the English Language, would produce his own modern translation of the English Bible in 1833; the public remained too loyal to the King James Version for Webster’s version to have much impact. It was not really until the 1880’s that England’s own planned replacement for their King James Bible, the English Revised Version(E.R.V.) would become the first English language Bible to gain popular acceptance as a post-King James Version modern-Engl

American Standard Bible

Mar 24, 1901

Signifigance: Better than the revised version english wise.

Tyler King

Mar 24, 2013

This was ridicuous hard!!! But i learned alot from it :)