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Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. The Holy Bible as Printed by Robert Aitken and Approved & Recommended by the Congress of the United States of America in 1782. New York: Arno Press, 1968. Unknown, . United States. National Archives. From George Washington to John Rodgers, 11 June 1783.
The 1537 folio edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English. The Psalter from the Coverdale Bible was included in the Great Bible of 1540 and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer beginning in 1662, and in all editions of the U.S. Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer until 1979.
YouVersion (also known as Bible.com or the Bible App) is an online and mobile Bible platform published for Android, ... This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, ...
As such, the Bible has had a profound influence, especially in the Western world, [182] [183] where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed in Europe using movable type. [184] It has contributed to the formation of Western law , art , literature , and education.
The RSV was the first translation of the Bible to make use of the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah, a development considered "revolutionary" in the academic field of biblical scholarship. [2] The New Testament was first published in 1946, the Old Testament in 1952, and the Apocrypha in 1957; the New Testament was revised in 1971.
New Testament first page of 1685 copy Algonquian Bible 1709: John chapter 3 Algonquian Indian by John White, 1585. The Eliot Indian Bible ( Massachusett: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God ; [ 1 ] also known as the Algonquian Bible ) was the first translation of the Christian Bible into an indigenous American language , as well as the ...
The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and the King James Version by 51 years. [1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare , [ 2 ] Oliver Cromwell , John Knox , John Donne and others.
One of Green's major accomplishments as a printer was the Eliot Indian Bible, translated by the missionary John Eliot, typeset by James Printer, which became the first Bible to be printed in British America in 1663. [1] [2] [3] Members of his family who also became printers include his sons Bartholomew, Bartholomew Green Jr. and Joseph Dennie. [4]