The Bible The Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament The Old Testament is the name what Christians have given to the Jewish Scriptures Mostly written down in Hebrew and and in Aramaic European Christianity bases on the New Testament which focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus Written in ancient Greek

Jesus from the New Testament New and Old Testaments

First translations In the 8th and early 9th centuries Venerable Bede and Caedamon translated the first small parts of the Bible Written in early Anglo- Saxon language Bede

First Bibles in English The first hand-written Bible by John Wyclif in the 1380's In 1525 William Tyndale was the first to print the New Testament in the English language John Wyclif

King James Bible In 1611 King James I made a translation to end all translations After that time over 300 corrections The New King James Version in 1982

The language Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995): “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.“ 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," Tyndale (1525): "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." 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."

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