The pictured copy was a gift from Bill and Marilyn Barnard in honor of Jack and Sally Turpin. Despite its popularity King James refused to authorize the Geneva Bible and began plotting to replace it with a new version, which he commissioned in 1604 and which was published in 1611. The Turpin Library copy was published in London in 1603, the year that King James I came to the throne of England.
At least 160 editions of the Geneva Bible were printed between 15. with apt Notes to sing them withall, 1604.Īdding to the popularity of the Geneva was its rather extensive notes, its use of roman type rather than black letter, and the verse divisions, which appeared for the first time in an English Bible. John with commentary, by noteworthy Calvinist scholar Franciscus Junius, and The Whole Booke of Psalmes. In addition to the Old and New Testaments, the Turpin Library copy contains The Revelation of St. Later, as with the pictured copy, it was published in London and became the Bible of choice for English readers even a generation after the King James Bible was published in 1611. The first edition of this Bible was published in 1560 in Geneva by a group of English exiles because of opposition from ecclesiastical officials in England. Dwight Pentecost, who had owned it for 50 years.
Hort published their celebrated critical edition of the Greek NT. In 1868 he wrote History of the English Bible. Tregelles sends Canon Westcott with her kindest regards this Greek Testament edited by Robt Stephans in 1549." Brooke Foss Westcott was Canon of Peterborough until 1883, then became Bishop of Durham.
He died in 1875.Ī folded sheet glued inside the front cover reads: "Mrs. Prideaux Tregelles, 1844." Tregelles traveled extensively collating Greek texts and developed a new critical text of the NT which would finally supersede the textus receptus. On the flyleaf an ownership signature reads "S. Stephanus had already published a number of Latin Bibles, but his four editions of the Greek text, following on the work of Erasmus and of the Complutensian Polyglot, marked a major advance in the refinement of an authoritative New Testament. This second edition of Robert Stephanus (or Estienne) is referred to as "O mirificam " from the preface ("O admirable king."). The pictured copy is open at Isaiah 1, where a woodcut depicts the Lord on his throne surrounded by seraphim. "Luther gave Scripture a completely new status in theological thought and Church practice-asserting the sole authority of Scripture ( sola scriptura) and the ability of the laity to read the Bible and distinguish between revealed truth and the distorted practice of the 'Ancient Church'-and provided a new German version of the Bible that drew on the original texts with innovative freshness, thus ensuring that his translation enjoyed unprecedented fame." (Stephan Füssel, 2003). Its vocabulary and style helped to stabilize the German language in the sixteen century.
Eighteen German translations had appeared earlier, but his superb translation gained instant popularity and has been kept in print down to the present day. This 1545 Bible in Low German is Luther's final revision of the High German Bible that he first published in 1534.Īlthough Luther wrote voluminously, his Bible translation stands as his greatest and most influential achievement.
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