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The first Bible printed in Scotland was a Geneva Bible, which was first issued in 1579. [7] In fact, the involvement of Knox (1514–1572) and Calvin (1509–1564) in the creation of the Geneva Bible made it especially appealing in Scotland, where in 1579 a law was passed requiring every household of sufficient means to buy a copy.
In 2017, Catholic publisher Nicolas-Jean Sed, Dominican director of Le Cerf, accused the Société biblique de Genève, responsible for the Bible Segond 21 translation, of destabilizing the market with its very low price and of being fundamentalist by not being a member of the Universal Bible Alliance. The director of the Geneva Bible Society ...
Anthony Gilby (c.1510–1585) was an English clergyman, known as a radical Puritan and translator of the Geneva Bible, the first English Bible available to the general public. He was born in Lincolnshire, and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge , graduating in 1535.
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Perhaps the first edition of an English language Bible that qualified as a "study Bible" was the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560; [1] [2] it contained extensive cross-references, synopses, and doctrinal points. The text of the Geneva Bible was usually not printed without the commentary, though the Cambridge edition was ...
There the spirit of scholarship was untrammeled. They found material for scholarly study of the Bible, and there they made and published a new version of the Bible in English, the Geneva Bible. During Elizabeth's reign sixty editions of it appeared. The Geneva Bible was first published in 1560 (Herbert #107). It made several changes: for one ...
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