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In 1781 Aitken undertook to print the first complete English Bible produced in America and sought the official sanction of Congress for his edition. Congress passed a resolution officially authorizing the edition in September 1782. Known as the “Aitken Bible,” this was the first and only edition of the Bible ever authorized by Congress.
The first magazine that appeared in American colonies, The American Monthly Magazine, was printed by Andrew Bradford in February 1741, edited by John Webbe. The first religious periodical published in America, was the Ein Geistliches Magazin, by Sower in 1764. [37]
The core of the book, taking up almost 300 of its approximately 380 pages in the paperback edition, is Friedman's own translation of the five Pentateuchal books, in which the four sources plus the contributions of the two redactors (of the combined JE source and the later redactor of the final document) are indicated typographically.
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. [3] 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.
Scofield Reference Bible, page 1115. This page includes Scofield's note on John 1:17. The Scofield Bible had several innovative features. Most important, it printed what amounted to a commentary on the biblical text alongside the Bible instead of in a separate volume, the first to do so in English since the Geneva Bible (1560). [2]
American Bible Society's first headquarters were on Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan. [4] The Bible House and offices of the Christian Herald, built 1853, seen here 1893, demolished 1956. American Bible Society used the King James Bible, and, starting in 1858, appointed committees to prevent textual corruption. [5]
The documentary hypothesis, a theory regarding the authorship of the Torah/Pentateuch, i.e. the first part of the Old Testament of the Bible Authorship of the Bible Topics referred to by the same term
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, is one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson compiled the manuscripts but never published them. The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1804, but no copies exist today. [1]