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Archbishop Stephen Langton | Divides Bible into chapters at University of Paris |
John Wycliffe | Fights church corruption by translating the New Testament into English from the Latin Vulgate. Declares all people are under God's dominion. |
Rabbi Isaac Nathan | Divided Old Testament into verses |
Johannes Gutenberg | Invents printing press in Mainz, Germany |
William Tyndale | Uses Erasmus Greek text to translate first NT into English from the Greek. Strangled and burnt by King Henry VIII |
Erasmus | organizes and publishes Textus Receptus |
Martin Luther | Uses Erasmus' text to translate New Testament into German |
Miles Coverdale | Finishes Tyndale's OT translation into English |
The Great Bible | Tyndale and Coverdale's English translation printed in England |
The Geneva Bible | A translation by Whitingham using Beza's Latin to make a Bible with John Calvin's notes |
Bishops' Bible | Produced by English church leaders when they saw the Geneva Bible was better translation that the Great Bible |
King James Bible | A translation from Erasmus' Textus Receptus that replaced the popular Bishops' Bible |
Father Ephream's Ephraemi Rescriptus | a Greek New Testament Manuscript from the 400's AD that had been written over with sermons |
Codex Sinaiticus | Tischendorf |
Codex Vaticanus | Tregelles |
Convocation of Canterbury and English Revised Version | 65 Britism scholars make changes to the King James Bible by correcting mistranslation of Hebrew words and add poetic form. |
Oxyrhynchos Papyri | Greek documents from the first century |
Adolf Deissman | writes "Light From the Ancient East" after 20 years of study of Oxyrhynchos Papyri |
Chester Beatty Papyri | Manuscripts from 90-200's AD |
Dead Sea Scrolls | Manuscripts written as early as 300 BC |