King James Version of the Bible - King James Version of the Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The King James Version or Authorised Version of the Holy Bible was a translation in English for the benefit of the Church of England at the behest of King James I of England. First published in 1611, it was the authorized version for use in the Church of England and became perhaps the most influential English version in America. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Starting the project 2 Literary.
King James Only Movement - King James Only Movement The King James Only Movement is a movement within Protestant fundamentalist Christianity which rejects all modern translations of the Bible, and accepts only the King James Version (KJV). This position is most prevalent within the Independent Baptist branch of the Baptist movement. The rejection is based in part on the different texts which were used to translate the different translations of the Bible. Most modern translations are translated from the Alexandrian manuscripts, while the King James Version was translated from the Textus Receptus, or Received Text. There are variations within the King James Only Movement. For example, the late John R. Rice, who published The Sword of the Lord, took a position that only the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts are inspired.
Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible - Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible Latter-day Saints believe that after Joseph Smith, Jr finished translating the Book of Mormon, he was commanded to make an inspired "translation" of the Bible which is known as the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible or JST. The "translation" was not a translation from ancient documents per se, but rather believed to be an inspired “rendering” or “restoration” of available documents to their original meanings. There is little evidence to suggest that Smith used any ancient documents, and his process sheds some light on his "translating" process used both during the translation of the Book of Mormon and the Bible. The translation took place from about 1830 until Smith's death in 1844 when he was preparing the manuscript for publication. The bulk.
History of the English Bible - History of the English Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Overview of English translation Old English Bible translations Middle English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The following article originated as an excerpt from "The Study of the King James Bible by Cleland Boyd McAfee (1866-1944), first published 1912. McAfee's whole text is available online at http://www.gutenberg.org/index/by-author/mc0.html . The present text is now being edited for compatibility with Wikipedia's standards and other articles, and will come to differ from McAfee's original; some notes about difficulties with McAfee's text will be.
Geneva Bible - Geneva Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The Geneva Bible was a Protestant translation of the Holy Bible into English. During the time when England was ruled by Queen Mary I, who persecuted Protestants, a number of Protestant scholars fled to Geneva in Switzerland, which was then ruled as a republic by John Calvin and Theodore Beza. Among these scholars was William Whittingham, who supervised the translation project. The first edition of this Bible appeared in 1560. It was revised substantially.
Great Bible - Great Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The Great Bible was the first authorised edition of the Holy Bible in English, authorised by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was published by Myles Coverdale in 1537. It contains a very slight revision of the New Testament and Old Testament passages that had been translated by William Tyndale, with the remaining books of the Old Testament translated.
Douai Bible - Douai Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The Douai Bible, also known as the Rheims-Douai Bible was a Roman Catholic translation of the Holy Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. The English exiles for religious causes were not all of one kind or of one faith. There were Roman Catholic refugees on the Continent as well as Puritan, and from the one, as from the other, there proceeded an English version of the Bible. The center of the English Roman.
Bishops' Bible - Bishops' Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The Bishops' Bible was an English translation of the Holy Bible produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the high-church party of the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops (episcopalian) with government by lay elders. In an attempt to replace the.
Scofield Reference Bible - Scofield Reference Bible The Scofield Reference Bible is a widely circulated annotated study Bible that was edited and annotated by Bible scholar Cyrus I. Scofield. This edition of the Bible first appeared in 1909, and was revised in 1917. The first editions of this Bible were published by the Oxford University Press. The original version of the Bible contained the traditional King James Version text of the Bible itself. This Bible was widely popular, as a result of several innovative features. It introduced a chain cross-referencing system that tied together related verses of Scripture and allowed the reader to follow Biblical themes from one book and chapter to the next. It featured an attempt to date the events of the Bible chronologically, and the text contains a running.
Revised Standard Version - Revised Standard Version This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The Revised Standard Version (RSV) is an English translation of the Bible that was popular in the mid 20th century and posed the first challenge to the King James Version as the prefered English Bible for Protestants. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Beginnings of the revision 2 The 1946 and 1952 printings and reaction 3 RSV differences 4 The 1957 addition of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books and the 1965 Catholic Edition 5 The 1971 New.
Revised Version - Revised Version The Revised Version of the Bible is a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of the Bible. This article is a stub..
Old English Bible translations - Old English Bible translations This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations Bede, Alfred the Great, Aelfric Middle English Bible translations John Wyclif, Richard Rolle Early Modern English Bible translations William Tyndale, Great Bible, Bishops' Bible, Geneva Bible, Douai Bible, King James Version of the Bible Modern English Bible translations Revised Standard Version, New International Version A number of Old English Bible translations were prepared in mediaeval England, translations of parts of the Bible into the Old English language. Many of these translations were in fact glosses, prepared and circulated in connection with the Latin Bible that was standard in Western Christianity at the time, for the purpose of assisting clerics whose grasp of Latin was imperfect. Old English literature.
New International Version - New International Version This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The New International Version® (NIV®) is an English translation of the Christian Bible. The complete translation was first published in 1978 and revised in 1984. The translation took over ten years and involved 100 scholars from six English speaking countries representing over 20 different denominations. The translation is especially popular among American Evangelicals, and it has become the most popular modern English translation of the Bible, having sold 150 million copies worldwide. References: http://www.niv.org.
New Revised Standard Version - New Revised Standard Version This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The New Revised Standard Version (also known as the NRSV) is a revision of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible that was released in 1989. It was translated by the National Council of Churches, an ecumenical Christian group. External Links National Council of Churches: About the NRSV NRSV Text This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Middle English Bible translations - Middle English Bible translations This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Overview of English Bible translations Old English Bible translations Bede, Alfred the Great, Aelfric Middle English Bible translations John Wyclif, Richard Rolle Early Modern English Bible translations William Tyndale, Great Bible, Bishops' Bible, Geneva Bible, Douai Bible, King James Version of the Bible Modern English Bible translations Revised Standard Version, New International Version The age of Middle English was not a fertile time for Bible translations but saw the first major translation that of John Wyclif. The period of Middle English begins with the Norman conquest and ends about 1500. The influence of French as the prefered language limited English literature of all types. Richard Rolle of Hampole (or de Hampole) was.
List of Bible passages of other than theological interest - List of Bible passages of other than theological interest List of Bible passages of other than theological interest (All quotations from the Authorized Version (King James Version) unless otherwise noted) 1 Kings 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. This is the famous passage that implies that pi = 3, if taken literally, and if round is taken to mean circular. 1 Kings 13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him. The King James translators italicized words added by the translators which did not correspond literally to any.
Jah - is a shortened form of the name Yahweh (Jahwe) or Jehovah, and is transliterated "Jah" in a single instance (Psalm 68:4) in the King James Version of the Bible. Some authors, particularly Burning Spear use for this purpose a term This Man. The word Jah-Man is used for one Rastafarian among them. Jah is also an alternative spelling of the name of the Egyptian deity "Joh"..
Jesus Christ as the Messiah - the Messiah is the Christian account of Jesus' life (which is represented both in texts and in images). Jesus is the central focus of attention and worship in Christianity and is held by most Christians to be the Messiah foretold in the Hebrew Bible. He is believed to be the saviour of mankind, the son of God the Father, and God himself. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Belief in the divinity 2 Life biography 2.1 Birth and childhood 2.2 The ministry and message of Jesus 2.3 Arrest, sentencing, and crucifixion 2.4 Resurrection, Ascension, and Second Coming 3 Miracles performed 4 Quotes 5 Differences in interpretation 6 See also Belief in the divinity The vast majority of self-described Christians regard belief in the divinity of Jesus to be part of what defines.
John Wyclif - Wyclif This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations Middle English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version John Wyclif (or Wycliffe) (1328 - December 31, 1384) was a theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. He initiated the first English translation of the Bible in one complete edition and is considered a precursor of the Protestant Reformation (the Bible had been translated before into English, but in parts: e.g., The West Midland Psalter, the Pauline Epistles, the Apocalypse, the Book of Acts, the Catholic.
John Fell - his "known desert," when wanting one term's residence, to proceed to his degree of B. A. He obtained his M.A. in 1643 and took holy orders (deacon 1647, priest 1649). During the Civil War he bore arms for King Charles I of England and held a commission as ensign. In 1648 he was deprived of his studentship by the parliamentary visitors, and during the next few years he resided chiefly at Oxford with his brother-in-law, Dr T Willis, at whose house opposite Merton College he and his friends Richard Allestree and John Dolben kept up the service of the Church of England throughout the Commonwealth. At the Restoration. Fell was made prebendary of Chichester, canon of Christ Church (July 27, 1660), dean (Nov. 30), master of St Oswald's hospital, Worcester, chaplain.
