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Biblical Backgrounds. Ancestry Of the ENGLISH bible. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Terms. How We Got The Bible.
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Biblical Backgrounds Ancestry Of the ENGLISH bible All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17
How We Got The Bible • _________________: Greek translation of the Old Testament – 250-100BC • 4BC-33AD: Jesus quotes the ____ • New Testament authors write the Gospels, history, and epistles from 45-100AD quoting from all but eight of the OT books. • Old Testament Apocrypha Evidence • Latin, Coptic, and Syriac Translations: 200-300AD Septuagint(LXX) OT
How We Got The Bible • NT Books are collected, reproduced and circulated throughout the Mediterranean • ___ NT Books are confirmed in the East and West • Formally confirmed at the ___________________in 397AD • Jerome starts translating into Latin in 410 and finishes 25 years later: ________________ 27 Synod of Carthage Latin Vulgate
How We Got The Bible Masoretes • ___________: Jewish Scribes make copies of the OT Scriptures – dating between 500-900
Birth of Middle English • In 1066AD a revised English language, Middle English emerges. • The first English translation is credited to ________________ in 1384. • The revised Wycliffe version is done by_______________, Wycliffe’s associate, and standard until 1525. John Wycliffe John Purvey
Birth of New English • The _________ of learning making the study of Hebrew and Greek more accessible. • The _______________ = mass production. • First book ever printed: ______________________ revival Printing press Gutenberg Bible
The 1500’s • Erasmus translates the ________________ in 1516. • ______________: Nailing “95 theses” to the church door in Wittenberg textusreceptus Martin Luther
The 1500’s • ___________________________________: William Tyndale – translates the NT from Greek – OT from Hebrew – 1525-1536. • _____________________: 1535AD Miles Coverdale dedicates his Bible to Anne Boleyn • _________________: 1537AD Translated by John Rogers under the pen name Thomas Matthew The Father of the English Bible The Coverdale Bible Matthew’s Bible
The 1500’s • The Great Bible: 1539AD – Placed in every church • 1555: Queen Mary bans protestant translations • __________________: 1560AD • __________________: 1568AD The Geneva Bible The Bishops Bible
King James Version • _______: KJV Commissioned • ______: KJV Finished • Also called the ___________________ • Keeps everyone content for more than 300 years. 1607 1611 Authorized Version
Disocveries! • Older Manuscripts are discovered • ________________________: from 400AD • ________________________: from 350AD • ________________________: from 325AD • ________________________: 1870 • ________________________: 1948 Codex Alexandrinus Codex Sinaiticus Codex Vaticanus The Revised Version The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Last 100 Years • 1901: American Standard Version(ASV) • 1952: Revised Standard Version(RSV) • 1965: The Amplified Bible • 1971: New American Standard Bible(NASB) • 1971: The Living Bible • 1976: The Good News Bible • 1978: New International Version(NIV) • 1982: New King James Version • 1996: New Living Translation(NLT) • 2002: The Message(MSG) • 2004: Holman Christian Standard Bible(HCSB)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 God Wrote A Book