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The Bible. The Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament The Old Testament is the name what Christians have given to the Jewish Scriptures M ostly written down in Hebrew and and in Aramaic
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The Bible • The Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament • The Old Testament is the name what Christians have given to the Jewish Scriptures • Mostly written down in Hebrew and and in Aramaic • European Christianity bases on the New Testament which focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus • Written in ancient Greek
New and Old Testaments Jesus from the New Testament
First translations • In the 8th and early 9th centuries Venerable Bede and Caedamon translated the first small parts of the Bible • Written in early Anglo-Saxon language Bede
First Bibles in English • The first hand-written Bible by John Wyclif in the 1380's • In 1525 William Tyndale was the first to print the New Testament in the English language John Wyclif
King James Bible • In 1611 King James I made a translation to end all translations • After that time over 300 corrections • The New King James Versionin 1982
The language • Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995): “God lufode middan-eard swa, dat he seade his an-cennedan sunu, dat nan ne forweorde de on hine gely ac habbe dat ece lif.“ • Wycliff (1380):“For god loued so the world; that he gaf his oon bigetun sone, that eche man that bileueth in him perisch not: but haue euerlastynge liif," • Tyndale (1525):"For God so loveth the worlde, that he hath geven his only sonne, that none that beleve in him, shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe." • King James (1611):"For God so loued the world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life."