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Category Archives: History of the English Bible

Obstacles To Bible Interpretation 1

There Can be Obstacles to Bible Interpretation… Chapter 1 – some Internet Sources that might help you. Three Categories one might put translations in.  They are:  1)  “Word for Word”   2)  Thought for Thought”  and 3) Paraphrase At this site:  http://www.apbrown2.net/web/TranslationComparisonChart.htm You would find the following three charts:  On this site, there are various Bible […]

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TranslationProcess

The Translation Process The “translation process” is that there is normally a team of people working on the translation and they use as old of manuscripts as possible to obtain.  Sometime they can only get parts of various old documents. The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with some insight on the […]

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KingJamesOnly-?

Below is a portion of an article published as “In the Nick of Time”  titled:  “I’m OK With This” by Kevin T. Bauder.  The excerpt covers a good explanation of what we could be saying when we take a stand on claiming we are “King James Only”.  Not that saying that is wrong, but the […]

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What The English Bible Cost One Man

What the English Bible Cost One Man The betrayal and death of William Tyndale. by Mark Galli William Tyndale studied at Oxford and Cambridge. He could speak seven languages and was proficient in Hebrew and Greek. He was a priest whose intellectual gifts and disciplined life could have taken him a long way in the […]

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How Bibles Were Made

How Bibles Were Made (from Gutenberg until presses were mechanized in the early 1800s)   The typefoundercasts every single letter from a combination of three metals: bismuth, tin, and lead. Separate sets must be made for different alphabets—Roman, Gothic, and Greek—as well as for capital letters and punctuation marks. Most letters will wear out after […]

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More Than One Bible

More Than One Bible Christians still disagree over the content of the Old Testament The Protestant Old Testament is identical to the Hebrew Bible, though the books are arranged and divided differently. Roman Catholics since 1546 (the Council of Trent) have officially included the “deutero-canonical” or “apocryphal” books. These books were included in early editions […]

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a Book That Almost Made It

A Book that Almost Made It Excerpt from a popular writing that some wanted to include in the New Testament: The Shepherd of Hermas In this picturesque allegory, a shepherd (Jesus) gives strict moral guidance through visions, “mandates,” and “similitudes” to a man named “Hermas.” The former slave-turned-businessman wrote it between 90 and 157 in […]

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How We Got Our Bible – Index

How We Got Our Bible   Christian History, Issue 43 From the Editor—Reading the Bible Backwards Did You Know? The Crown of English Bibles The King James Version was the culmination of 200 turbulent years of Bible translation. Also:The Fiery Man behind the First English Bible What the English Bible Cost One Man The betrayal […]

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Did You Know?

Did You Know? Little-known and remarkable facts about the history of the Bible by David M. Scholer The oldest surviving manuscript of any part of the New Testament is a papyrus fragment containing verses from John 18; scholars estimate it was written about 125. We may have sayings of Jesus that are not recorded in […]

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A Testament is Born

A Testament Is Born Could Matthew take shorthand?—and other intriguing reasons the New Testament may have emerged surprisingly early. by Carsten Peter Thiede “But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger” (John 8:6). Here, in the story of the adulteress, we learn that Jesus knew how to write. But […]

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