1,400 BC: The first written Word of God: The Ten Commandments delivered to Moses.
500 BC: Completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts which make up The 39 Books of the Old Testament.
200 BC: Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts which contain The 39 Old Testament Books AND 14 Apocrypha Books.
1st Century AD: Completion of All Original Greek Manuscripts which make up The 27 Books of the New Testament.
315 AD: Athenasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, identifies the 27 books of the New Testament which are today recognized as the canon of scripture.
382 AD: Jerome's Latin Vulgate Manuscripts Produced which contain All 80 Books (39 Old Test. + 14 Apocrypha + 27 New Test).
500 AD: Scriptures have been Translated into Over 500 Languages.
600 AD: LATIN was the Only Language Allowed for Scripture.
995 AD: Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language) Translations of The New Testament Produced.
1384 AD: Wycliffe is the First Person to Produce a (Hand-Written) manuscript Copy of the Complete Bible; All 80 Books.
1455 AD: Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press; Books May Now be Mass-Produced Instead of Individually Hand-Written. The First Book Ever Printed is Gutenberg's Bible in Latin.
1516 AD: Erasmus Produces a Greek/Latin Parallel New Testament.
1522 AD: Martin Luther's German New Testament.
1526 AD: William Tyndale's New Testament; The First New Testament printed in the English Language.
1535 AD: Myles Coverdale's Bible; The First Complete Bible printed in the English Language (80 Books: O.T. & N.T. & Apocrypha).
1537 AD: Tyndale-Matthews Bible; The Second Complete Bible printed in English. Done by John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers (80 Books).
1539 AD: The "Great Bible" Printed; The First English Language Bible Authorized for Public Use (80 Books).
1560 AD: The Geneva Bible Printed; The First English Language Bible to add Numbered Verses to Each Chapter (80 Books).
1568 AD: The Bishops Bible Printed; The Bible of which the King James was a Revision (80 Books).
1609 AD: The Douay Old Testament is added to the Rheims New Testament (of 1582) Making the First Complete English Catholic Bible; Translated from the Latin Vulgate (80 Books).
*** 1611 AD: The King James Bible Printed; Originally with All 80 Books. The Apocrypha was Officially Removed in 1885 Leaving Only 66 Books.
1782 AD: Robert Aitken's Bible; The First English Language Bible (KJV) Printed in America.
1791 AD: Isaac Collins and Isaiah Thomas Respectively Produce the First Family Bible and First Illustrated Bible Printed in America. Both were King James Versions, with All 80 Books.
1808 AD: Jane Aitken's Bible (Daughter of Robert Aitken); The First Bible to be Printed by a Woman.
1833 AD: Noah Webster's Bible; After Producing his Famous Dictionary, Webster Printed his Own Revision of the King James Bible.
1841 AD: English Hexapla New Testament; an Early Textual Comparison showing the Greek and 6 Famous English Translations in Parallel Columns.
1846 AD: The Illuminated Bible; The Most Lavishly Illustrated Bible printed in America. A King James Version, with All 80 Books.
1885 AD: The "English Revised Version" Bible; The First Major English Revision of the KJV.
1901 AD: The "American Standard Version"; The First Major American Revision of the KJV.
1971 AD: The "New American Standard Bible" (NASB) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Word for Word English Translation" of the Bible.
1973 AD: The "New International Version" (NIV) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Phrase for Phrase English Translation" of the Bible.
1982 AD: The "New King James Version" (NKJV) is Published as a "Modern English Version Maintaining the Original Style of the King James."
2002 AD: The English Standard Version (ESV) is Published as a translation to bridge the gap between the accuracy of the NASB and the readability of the NIV.
Consider the following textual comparison of the earliest English translations of John 3:16, as shown in the English Hexapla Parallel New Testament:
1st Ed. 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."
Rheims (1582): "For so God loued the vvorld, that he gaue his only-begotten sonne: that euery one that beleeueth in him, perish not, but may haue life euerlasting"
Geneva (1560): "For God so loueth the world, that he hath geuen his only begotten Sonne: that none that beleue in him, should peryshe, but haue euerlasting lyfe."
Great Bible (1539): "For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in him, shulde not perisshe, but haue euerlasting lyfe."
Tyndale (1534): "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."
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,"
Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995 AD): �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."
Had the LXX been used in translating the KJV, Protestants would also have the Apocrypha in their Bibles, However the KJV uses the MT and the Jews removed the Apocrypha from the MT.
It was never considered the Word of God, just books that the Early Christians read, and were considered important, but NOT the Word of God.
Two things happened during the Reformation concerning this.
1. In an incredibly CHEESY move, Rome suddenly decided that the apocrypha was indeed the Word of God.
Why suddenly after 1500 years????
Luther pointed out to them that Purgatory was nowhere in Scripture, and in a mad dash to find something in the Bible to support it, some monk found a reference to praying for the dead in Macabees. So, the Pope instantly canonized the entire apocrypha!
2. A Printer, which remember was a new profession, was printing Bibles, and he forgot to put the Apocrypha in one of the Bibles, and after doing this he realized it was cheaper to print the Bible without it, and so he started printing it that way, and other printers followed.
You can still find Protestant Bibles with the Apocrypha in it, but they are VERY old, and will cost you some big dollars.
If you check on E-Bay, you can at least see some pictures of these Bibles.
Any Protestant Bibles translated from the Latin Vulgate should have the Apocrypha, however after the KJV I do not think there is any, well I suppose there might be some but I don't see how. I'll have to check it out.
The Old and New Testements appeared very eary in translations. The OT was translated into Greek (the LXX) between 250-150 B.C., and other translations in Greek appeared soon after the beginning of the Christian era. Parts, at least, of the OT were rendered into Syriac as early as the first century, and a Coptic translation appeared probably in the third century.
The New Testement was translated inot Latin and Syriac c. 150 and into Coptic c.200. In subsequent conturies versions appeared in the Armenian, Gothic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Arabic, Persian, and Slavonic languages. The Bible, in whole or in part is now available in more than 2000 different languages and dialects.
The earliest days of English Christianity the only known Bible was the Latin Vulgate, made by Jerome between A. D.383 and 405.
The Jews, the guardians of the Masoretic Text, removed them because they felt they were not "Inspired" or "Canon". Basically they didn't think they were written by God. And the Protestants followed suit. However the Catholics did not, they still have them in their Bibles
ok, right. The Christian Bible was Translated from Hebrew and Greek to Latin, which did not include these books that were included in the canon.The Protestant canon includes 29 books in the OT and 2 in the NT. The Roman Catholic canon has 7 more books and some additional ones in the OT. The Jews have the same OT canon as the Protestants. But by the time our Bibe was written our canon of the OT and NT matches that of the old writings, becasue the other books were n question.
Have you ever read over the Book od Judas? I would'nt have put that on the canon list either...:excited:
