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The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1] The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek.
In approximately 990, a full and freestanding version of the four Gospels in idiomatic Old English appeared in the West Saxon dialect and are known as the Wessex Gospels. Seven manuscript copies of this translation have survived. This translation gives us the most familiar Old English version of Matthew 6:9–13, the Lord's Prayer:
The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels into a West Saxon dialect of Old English. Produced in approximately 990, they are the first translation of all four gospels into English without the Latin text. [5] In the 11th century, Abbot Ælfric translated much of the Old Testament into Old ...
The Bible: An American Translation (AAT) is an English version of the Bible consisting of the Old Testament translated by a group of scholars under the editorship of John Merlin Powis Smith, [1] the Apocrypha translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed, and the New Testament translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed.
New Testament, Old Testament, Apocrypha. Modern English 1998 Revision of the King James Version. Twentieth Century New Testament: New Testament Modern English 1904 Greek text of Westcott and Hort. The Unvarnished New Testament: New Testament Modern English 1991 Wuest Expanded Translation: New Testament Modern English 1961 Nestle-Aland Text
As a result, the lapse of time between the original manuscripts and their surviving copies is much longer than in the case of the New Testament manuscripts. The first list of the Old Testament manuscripts in Hebrew, made by Benjamin Kennicott (1718–1783) and published by Oxford in two volumes in 1776 and 1780, listed 615 manuscripts from ...
There are numerous manuscripts of the Psalms in Catalan from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, translated from the Vulgate, Occitan, French and Hebrew, with a New Testament and full Bible translation made in the 1300s. [24] Parts of an Old Testament in Old Spanish from the late 1300s still exist. [25]
The settings do not attempt to represent Old Testament life as anything different from that of contemporary England, and so give valuable depictions of many aspects of the English world. The extensive illustrations suggest that it was designed mainly for lay use, [ 10 ] and possibly intended for a single highly-placed individual or family. [ 11 ]