English Bible Versions A Tercentenary Memorial of the King James Version, from the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introductory Foreword
- 1 What the Bible Is
- 2 A Short Statement as to the Sixty-six Books of Holy Scripture—in Two Sections
- 3 The Fourteen Books of the Apocrypha
- 4 Manuscripts and Versions
- 5 The Septuagint
- 6 The Oldest Existing Bible
- 7 The Vulgate
- 8 Quotations from Early Christian Writers
- 9 Our Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament
- 10 England's Early Efforts
- 11 The First English Bible
- 12 Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament
- 13 Early Printed English Bibles
- 14 The Council of Trent and the Authorized Bible of the Roman Church
- 15 Later English Bibles of the Sixteenth Century
- 16 The Popular English Bible of the Roman Church
- 17 The Authorized Version of 1611
- 18 The Need of Further Revision
- 19 Further Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament
- 20 The Revised Version of 1881–1885
- 21 Printers' Errors
- 22 The English Bible-Printing Monopoly. The King's Printer, &c.
- 23 The American Standard Edition of the Revised Version
- 24 The Marginal Readings Bible
- 25 Early American Versions and Prints
- 26 The Different Authorities Available for the Various Versions
- 27 Concluding Words
- APPENDIX
- ERRATA
- INDEX
4 - Manuscripts and Versions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introductory Foreword
- 1 What the Bible Is
- 2 A Short Statement as to the Sixty-six Books of Holy Scripture—in Two Sections
- 3 The Fourteen Books of the Apocrypha
- 4 Manuscripts and Versions
- 5 The Septuagint
- 6 The Oldest Existing Bible
- 7 The Vulgate
- 8 Quotations from Early Christian Writers
- 9 Our Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament
- 10 England's Early Efforts
- 11 The First English Bible
- 12 Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament
- 13 Early Printed English Bibles
- 14 The Council of Trent and the Authorized Bible of the Roman Church
- 15 Later English Bibles of the Sixteenth Century
- 16 The Popular English Bible of the Roman Church
- 17 The Authorized Version of 1611
- 18 The Need of Further Revision
- 19 Further Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament
- 20 The Revised Version of 1881–1885
- 21 Printers' Errors
- 22 The English Bible-Printing Monopoly. The King's Printer, &c.
- 23 The American Standard Edition of the Revised Version
- 24 The Marginal Readings Bible
- 25 Early American Versions and Prints
- 26 The Different Authorities Available for the Various Versions
- 27 Concluding Words
- APPENDIX
- ERRATA
- INDEX
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- English Bible VersionsA Tercentenary Memorial of the King James Version, from the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, pp. 42 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1911