Comfort is visiting professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and author of The Quest for the Original Text of the New Testament (Baker, 1992).Ĭlick here for reprint information on Christian History.When did God first call Abraham (Abram)? When did he and Sarah leave for the land of Canaan? What was the deception the couple promulgated during their journeys?

1325 Both Richard Rolle and William Shoreham translate psalms into metrical verseġ380-1382 John Wycliffe and associates make first translation of the whole Bible into Englishġ455 Gutenberg’s Latin Bible-first from press English Versions From Greekġ516 Erasmus’s Greek New Testament, forerunner to the Textus Receptus used by KJV translatorsġ525 William Tyndale makes the first translation of the New Testament from Greek into Englishġ537 Miles Coverdale’s Bible completes Tyndale’s work on the Old Testamentġ538 Great Bible, assembled by John Rogers, the first English Bible authorized for public useġ560 Geneva Bible-the work of William Whittingham, a Protestant English exile in Genevaġ568 Bishop’s Bible-a revision of the Great Bibleġ607-1611 King James Version, the “Authorized Version,” is madeĭr. 1300 Invention of eyeglasses aids copyingĬ. 735 >Historian Bede translates the GospelsĨ71-899 King Alfred the Great translates the Psalms and 10 Commandmentsĩ50 The 7th-century Lindisfarne Gospels receive English translationĩ55-1020 Aelfric translates various Bible booksĬ. 650 Caedmon, a monk, puts Bible books into verseĬ.

400 Jerome translates the Bible into Latin this “Vulgate” becomes standard of medieval church English Versions From LatinĬ. 305-310 Lucian of Antioch’s Greek New Testament text becomes a foundation for later Biblesģ67 Athanasius’s Festal Letter lists complete New Testament canon (27 books) for the first timeģ97 Council of Carthage establishes orthodox New Testament canon (27 books)Ĭ. 45–85? Books of the Greek New Testament writtenĩ0 and 118 Councils of Jamnia give final affirmation to the Old Testament canon (39 books)ġ40-150 Marcion’s heretical “New Testament” incites orthodox Christians to establish a NT canonģ03-306 Diocletian’s persecution includes confiscating and destroying New Testament ScripturesĬ.

The Septuagint, a popular Greek translation of the Old Testament, producedĪ.D. Books of the Hebrew Old Testament writtenĬ.

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