What other old bibles exist beside the king james version?
Arquitect82 asked:
or What are other bibles are there before 1964?
can anyone name me some of them?
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or What are other bibles are there before 1964?
can anyone name me some of them?
www.DividingWord.com
February 18 2010 11:13 am | Religion & Spirituality
Desert Rose on 20 Feb 2010 at 7:52 pm #
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more than 50 different versions
Booth on 23 Feb 2010 at 6:51 pm #
King James Bible
Here are a couple that you can purchase from Christianbook.com.
The Geneva Bible 1560 Edition
The Tyndale New Testament 1526 Edition
mcshughes on 25 Feb 2010 at 9:09 am #
King James Bible
Tyndale, Wycliffe, and the Bishop’s Bible were all before 1611 KJV.
It was revised several times before 1964.
Good reference, “The Book” by Gerald Pinson.
tboneatlanta on 28 Feb 2010 at 8:39 am #
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I’m not sure if I’m about to answer your question or not, but listen to this:
in my lifetime we’ve seen all of these new age versions. NIV, NASB, Holman, Wycliff, Darby’s, Young’s, New King James, etc.
Go into a christian book store now and you’ll see the Fireman’s Bible, the Chicken Soup Bible, the Teens Bible, and lots of others. It’s really ridiculous. Then you’ve got the false religions like the Jehovah’s Witnesses who published their Bible back in the 50’s through a “spirit guide” who gave them their “new” translation. How many more translations can these book publishers keep coming out with??
You can only use the thesaurus for so long, until you eventually run out of words. These people are “adding to” and “taking away” from the Word of God and re-defining words so that they can sell books and make money, and it’s throwing many of us Christians into confusion as we can’t all agree on what a particular passage really means.
Christians have to wake up and understand what’s being done to us. The Bible is the Number One best seller, year after year. They tell us Harry Potter is the best seller, or whatever the latest smash hit happens to be, but none of that is true. The Bible is the number one best seller every year. Harry Potter and everything else is competing for Number two. Book publishers have figured out there is much profit to be made from bible publishing and marketing their products, and they simply don’t understand how serious God is about the integrity of His Word.
Old Testament scribes made Bibles by hand, and they copied the Bible “letter for letter”, not even “word for word”, and each character had to be evenly spaced across the page. If anything about it was not absolutely perfect, that page was thrown away and he had to start over. Contrast that with these new translations, where these people just write whatever in there and have the audacity to call it “Scripture”.
Even though the NASB is still in print, and is one of the more popular translations, here is what one of the chief translators of that Bible had to say about his own product, after seeing the error of his ways and repenting:
The NASV translator is Dr. Frank Logsdon and he writes:
“I must under God renounce every attachment to eh New American Standard. I’m afraid I’m in trouble with the Lord .. We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I helped interview some of the translators; I sat with the translator; I wrote the preface.
I’m in trouble; I can’t refute these arguments; its wrong, it’s terribly wrong; it’s fighteningly wrong and what am I going to do about it? I can no longer ignore these criticisms I am hearing and I can’t refute them …
When questions began to reach me at first I was quite offended. However, in attempting to answer, I began to sense that something was not right about the NASV. Upon investigation, I wrote my very dear friend, Mr. Lockman, explaining that I was forced to renounce all attachment to the NASV. The product is grievous to my heart and helps to complicate matters in these already troublous times…The deletions are absolutely frightening .. there are so many .. Are we so naive that we do not suspect Satanic deception in all of this?
I don’t want anything to do with it …
The finest leaders that we have today … haven’t gone into it (the new version’s use of a corrupted Greek text), just as I hadn’t gone into it … That’s how easily one can be deceived .. I’m going to talk to him (Dr. George Sweeing, then president of Moody Bible Institute) about these things … You can say the Authorized Version (KJV) is absolutely correct. How correct? 100% correct! … If you must stand against everyone else, stand.”
http://www.bible-reviews.com on 01 Mar 2010 at 10:47 pm #
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The chart here is in order of date of final edition (please delete the space before “com” – YA fault). com/charts_basic.html
Now, for the earlier English versions not listed…
1385 (or so) Wyclif bible
1535 Coverdale bible
1537 Matthew’s Bible (first authorized version)
1539 Great Bible
1539 Taverner’s Bible
1560 Geneva Bible
1566 Bishops’ bible
Jim