History and Lineage of the English Bible
1450BC
900BC
OT
1: ORIGINS
Archaic
Hebrew
partOT
Hebrew
Aramaic
Daniel and Ezra
Square
Script
Hebrew
300 to 200BC
Sea Scrolls
150BC Dead
written
30AD
Greek
KING JAMES
OT+A
OT+NT
1782AD
from 500AD
Masoretic Text
Jesus spoke
Aramaic
copy errors
NT+L
Writings in
Slavonic
Greek Orthodox Greek about
OT+A
300AD
Latin
3rd Authorised (KJV)
Culmination of C16
translation work.
Greek
Septuagint
90AD
English
OT+A+NT
1611AD
OT
500BC
400BC
3: post KING JAMES
Origen
Jesus
rationalises and
corrects Greek
Septaugint
NT+L
Armenian C5
Georgian C5
Old Latin
Coptic C3
Ethiopic C4-5
Vaticanus (B)
350AD Codex
Codex Siniaticus (S)
OT+A
Eusebius of
Caesarea
defines Canon
Emp Constantine 322
NT+L
1867AD
1873AD
Inspired Version (1833)
by Joseph Smith, Church
of the Latter Day Saints
First US Printing
King James Version
without Apocrypha
from Codex S
OT+NT
OT+NT
English
Hexaplex
English
Hexaplex
7 column printing of
Greek plus 6 English
7 column printing of
Greek plus 6 English
OT+NT
1881-5AD
removed from
1885AD Apocrypha
the King James Bible
From TR and
other fragments
OT+NT
REVISED
Textus
Receptus (TR)
Oxford edition is considered definitive TR
First major attempt to
translate rigorously.
Work of 65 scholars.
OT+NT
1901AD
LATIN
Codex B, S, A
[oldest NT surviving]
1842AD
Robert Aitken
American
Standard
based on the Revised
OT+A
383AD
of Carthage (397) &
397AD Council
Hippo(393) fix NT cannon
450AD
Rome says
“Latin only”
600AD
680AD Caedmon translates
NT
1904AD
+NT
Jerome’s
Latin Vulgate
20 Century NT
Greek literal
translation
OT
NT
1934AD
Masoretic Text
vowel and accent
standardisation
1947AD
stories to Anglo Saxon
Alfred’s translation
995AD King
into the “venacular”
Dead Sea Scrolls
discovered
2: BEGINNINGS
Wycliffe Bible
First English
of Florence
1439-43 Council
defines NT 27books
Wycliffe’s bones were
ground down to dust.
1455AD GUTENBERG INVENTS PRINTING
OT+NT
1952AD
OT+A+NT
Gutenberg
Bible
parallel
1516AD Erasmus’
Greek / Latin Bible
NCC in USA sponsor.
Strong Greek basis.
OT+A+NT
Textus
Receptus (TR)
German NT
1522AD Luther’s
(Greek & Hebrew origin)
1959AD
OT+NT
1961AD
1965AD
OT+A+NT
Berkeley Bible
Typesetable Greek
over 200 versions.
NT
1525AD
Tyndale: NT
Tyndale was burned
at the stake in 1537.
New English
CoS inspired. Contemporary. Abstracted
from modernism's.
OT+NT
1971AD
1st Complete English
Bible (80 books)
Revised Vulgate
approved by
Vatican Council 2.
OT+NT
Thomas
Matthew
Living Bible
A Revision of
Tyndale’s Bible.
1539AD
Taverner’s
of Thomas Matthew
1546AD Council
Trent starts minus notes.
Liberal translation
seen as too “free”
by purists.
OT+A+NT
GREAT BIBLE
1st Authorised
Version.
OT+A+NT
GENEVA
Good News
Simple vocabulary
and plain use of
English. (TEV)
OT+A+NT
Stephanus’ TR
Major landmark in
interpretation and
accuracy.
OT+A+NT
1560AD
OT+NT
1976AD
Clementine
Triggered by Trent,
published in 1592.
Exclusive Latin bible.
1550AD
OT+NT
1978AD
New
International
Written in Geneva by
exiled reformers.
First Study Bible.
1568AD
Contemporary phrase
by phrase. (NIV)
BISHOP’s
2nd Authorised. The
Geneva minus antipapal study notes.
1582AD
Vulgate 1965
Literal translation.
Myles
Coverdale
OT+A+NT
OT+A+NT
New American
Standard Bible
OT+A+NT
1535AD
A
Revised
Standard
First printed book is a
2 vol. Bible in Latin
1537AD
Greek
Translation in
“today’s” language
4: post DEAD SEA SCROLLS
OT+A+NT
1382AD
Hebrew
Riverside NT
OT+NT
1982AD
New King
James
New Bible in King
James Version style.
Rome surrenders
Latin only edict.
OT+A+NT
1609/10
Douay / Rheim
First, and root
“Catholic” Bible
KEY:
historical
date Important
events.
OT+A+NT
1611AD
KING JAMES
English
BIBLE NAME
Brief description and
facts about version
3rd Authorised (KJV)
Culmination of C16
translation work.
Hebrew
content
Latin
Greek
Main flows of
style and
source material
language
OT: Old Testament
A: Apocrypha
NT: New Testament
L: Laodiceans