History of the English Bible

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Middle Ages/Middle History, Christianity - Other

Authors: John Brown In Year : 1912

Book Language: English

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Preface
Anglo-Saxon Versions
Wycliffe's Manuscript Bible
Tyndale's Printed Translation
Coverdale's and the Great Bible
Three Rival Versions
The Autorized Version of 1611
The Revised Version of 1881

The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here presented to the reader's notice. It is the brief repetition of a story beginning in 670 A.D. and reaching on for twelve hundred years to 1879. It takes us back to the Monastery of Whitby where Caedmon the monk paraphrased Scripture story in Saxon song, and brings us through the centuries to the Abbey of Westminster where a distinguished body of English scholars met in 1870 and commenced that Revision of the Scriptures which first saw the light in 1881. (From the Preface)