This is a long Crossviews but worth the reading. CROSSVIEWS: Momentum for Monday, March 17, 2014 – ENGLISH BIBLES— Most Christian assume the King James version of the Bible was the first one printed in English. Few Christian realize that several Bibles pre-date the King James. Here are a few with the dates and the time period in which they were printed. 1) Wycliffe’s Version. John Wycliffe (1324-1384) is considered the “Morning Star” of the reformation that came about 150 year after his death. The Council of Constance that had John Hus burned at the stake, also had Wycliffe’s bone dug up and burned and the ashes cast into the river Swift in 1415, 2) Tyndale Version. William Tyndale (1477-1536), Tyndale was strangled to death at the order of King Henry the VIII and his body burned, Coverdale Version. Miles Coverdale (1551-1566), Matthew Bible, A translation of Tyndale’s Version was published in 1537, Taverner Bible, A correction of the Matthew Bible (1539), Cranmer Bible. Published in 1540. The Geneva Bible. Published by William Wittingham, a non-conformist to the English Law of Conformity to the Church of England, in 1568, Parker Bible. Archbishop Parker, (1504-1575). Douay Bible, Published at the college at Douay in1609. This translation from the Latin Vulgate is favored by the Catholic laity. King James. Published in 1611 at the order of King Jmes, who authorized it as the only English Bible to be used in England so taxes could be collected by the government. . While there has been many versions of the Bible printed through the years there has only been a few translations. The Old Testament was translated from Hebrew into the Greek as the Greek Septuagint (seventy scholars) who were brought to Alexandria, Egypt, the center of learning, around 280 BC. The translations of the New Testament from the original Greek into Aramaic began as early as 150 AD making the Bible translated within a hundred years or less from the time of the original writings of the inspired authors! Roman Emperor, Diocletian (284-305) ordered the destruction of all the sacred writing of the Christians in an effort to totally end the Christian faith. He, and other Roman Emperors destroyed the lives of many thousands of early believers, but they could not destroy the scriptures by which they lived. Later Emperor Constantine recognized the Christian religion as one of the many religions of the Roman Empire and in 312 AD ordered 50 copies of scriptures to be prepared for use in Christian churches. CrossViews
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