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Murdoch Nisbet was of the Hardhill Farm, Parish of Loudon, Ayrshire, Scotland. He was an early member of the Nisbet's of Greenholm, living near Newmilns , along the Irvine River. He joined the Lollards (early English Protestants) who followed the teachings of Wycliffe : Wycliffe and his assistants translated the Latin Bible into English about 1384.
Robert Young was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of John Young, a book-binder on Parliament Square, on the Royal Mile. [2] He served an apprenticeship in printing and simultaneously taught himself various oriental languages.
The Bible has been completely translated into Lowland Scots, with parts also translated. In 1513-39 Murdoch Nisbet, associated with a group of Lollards, wrote a Scots translation of the New Testament, working from John Purvey's Wycliffite Bible. However, this work remained unpublished, in manuscript form, and was known only to his family and ...
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. [13]
Robert Aitken (1734–1802) was an Early American publisher and printer in Philadelphia and the first to publish an English language Bible in the newly formed United States. He was born in Dalkeith, Scotland. He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1769, where he published Pennsylvania Magazine, or American Monthly Museum in 1775–76. [1]
The Gaelic Bible was first printed by the Bible Society in 1807 when the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) printed a corrected edition of the SSPCK text. In 1826 a revision of the Bible was made by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and was printed with the Metrical Psalms Sailm Dhaibhidh by SSPCK and BFBS. From 1872 the text ...
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]
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.