Case 4
- 16th Century Bibles in English 2
The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Geneva: Rouland Hall, 1560.
The
Geneva Bible is a translation made by Puritan exiles in Geneva who fled England
and the persecutions of the Catholic Queen Mary I. The text was prepared under
the supervision of the Calvinist William Whittingham (ca. 1524-1579), who
became minister to the English congregation at Geneva after the death of John
Knox (ca. 1513-1572).
The Old
Testament and Apocrypha are based mainly on the Great Bible of 1539, corrected
from the original Hebrew and Greek, and compared with the Latin versions of Leo
Juda and others. The New Testament is a revision of Whittingham’s 1557
Testament, based on further comparison with Theodore Beza’s Latin translation.
The
Geneva Bible was made directly available to the general public and became
immensely popular, with approximately 140 editions printed between 1560 and
1644. It was the edition read by William Shakespeare and John Bunyan, and
carried on ‘The Mayflower’ as it transported Puritan pilgrims to the New World.
The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Geneva: Rouland Hall, 1560.
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The Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance. London: By the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1599.
This
edition of the Geneva Bible includes a revised and newly annotated New
Testament by Laurence Tomson (1538-1608). As the basis for his work, Tomson
used the Greek New Testament with Latin commentary of French theologian
Theodore Beza (1519-1605).
The 1599
edition was the first of the Geneva-Tomson texts to incorporate the Junius
version of Revelation, becoming Geneva-Tomson-Junius - so named for its Latin
commentary by Huguenot theologian Franciscus Junius.
The Bible that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages. With most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance. London: By the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1599.
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