1. History of the Bible part 3

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3. Process
Manuscripts
Printed text
Translation

4. Chapter & Verse Divisions
Chapters: Stephen Langton
NT Verses added: Robert Stephanus

5. Printed Greek NT
Johannes Gutenberg

10. Erasmus

13. Stephanus
1549 edition

14. 1550 edition

15. 1551 edition with verses added for the first time

16. Beza ( )

18. Elzevir brothers “Textus Recptus” -- the ‘Received Text’
This form of Greek Text dominated until 1881.

20. Westcott & Hort 1881
Westcott
Hort

22. United Bible Societies GNT
Kurt & Barbara Aland
Bruce Metzger

24. English Translations before KJV
John Wycliffe
(1325?-1384)

27. William Tyndale c

30. Coverdale Bible
Miles Coverdale

32. The work of John Rogers (pen-name Thomas Matthew)
Matthew’s Bible
The work of John Rogers (pen-name Thomas Matthew)

33. Taverner’s Bible (1539)

34. Bishops’ Bible (1568, 1572)

35. Rheims-Douai Bible
1582,

36. King James Version James I begins rule in 1603
New Bible translation suggested

37. King James Version 54 translators for the KJV
Six groups at two locations
Westminster
Oxford

38. King James Version Translation between 1604-1611
It was not immediately accepted by all the people

39. King James Version Factors Economic Political
Hugh Broughton -- Hebrew scholar not invited to assist in translation

41. KJV Facts NT of KJV based on about 25 late Greek manuscripts
No early mss (2nd-3rd cent.) were known to KJV translators
Today over 5,000 NT mss are known

42. KJV Facts Major manuscripts emerge after KJV translation
Lucar presents Codex Alexandrinus (A) to Charles I
Sinaiticus (1859), Vaticanus (1889)

43. KJV Facts
Mythological engravings added

44. Neptune

45. KJV link View the first edition -- read a few lines!

46. Helpful resource
F. F. Bruce, History of the Bible in English.