How We Got the Bible
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How We Got the Bible

A Visual Journey

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How We Got the Bible

A Visual Journey

About this book

How did the Bible come to be? How has it been passed down to us through the ages? Is it still trustworthy and relevant after all these years? The Bible is the bestselling book of all time and the basis of faith for billions of people around the world. Encompassing the fields of archaeology, biblical studies, and history, the story of how the Bible has come to us today is a fascinating one. It is told here, accompanied by beautiful full-color photographs and illustrations. You’ll marvel at the care and reverence with which this ancient book has been preserved. Just a few of the remarkable insights you’ll gain include scriptural origins on animal skins and clay tablets and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. The Oldest Forms of the Bible Ever Discovered
  6. Alphabets, Animal Hides, and Papyrus
  7. The Principal Manuscript Behind the Old Testament
  8. The Hebrew Bible Is Translated Into Greek
  9. The Hebrew Bible Into Many Other Languages
  10. The Dead Sea Scrolls
  11. What Is the Old Testament?
  12. The Apocrypha
  13. An Ancient Storeroom of Manuscripts: The Cairo Genizah
  14. An Ancient Repository of Manuscripts In the Sinai Desert
  15. Early Papyrus Texts of the New Testament
  16. Early Parchment Manuscripts of the Bible
  17. 5,000 Greek Manuscripts from the Middle Ages
  18. The Bible Is Translated Into Latin
  19. The Largest and Heaviest Manuscript of the Bible
  20. The New Testament Is Translated Into Other Languages
  21. What Is the New Testament?
  22. Illuminated Manuscripts
  23. Scribes and Scriptoria
  24. The Earliest English Translations
  25. The First Complete Bible In English: The Wycliffe Bible
  26. The Invention of Printing: The Gutenberg Press
  27. The First Published Greek New Testament
  28. William Tyndale (1494–1536) and the Tyndale Bible
  29. Martin Luther Translates the Bible for the German
  30. Bible Translations During the Reign of Henry VIII
  31. John Calvin and the Geneva Bible (1560)
  32. Study Bibles
  33. The Predecessor to the King James Version: The Bishops’ Bible (1568)
  34. The King James Version 1611
  35. A Forbidden Book Worth Dying for
  36. The First Bible Printed In America: The Algonquin Bible (1663)
  37. A Monumental Revision of the King James Version
  38. Successors to the ASV: The Modern Versions
  39. All Ancient Manuscripts In One Volume
  40. Early Parallel Bibles
  41. Taking the Bible to the World
  42. Translating the Bible for the Yali People of Indonesia
  43. Translating the Bible for the People of Kambari, Africa
  44. The Living Bible
  45. A Comparison of Modern Versions of the Bible
  46. Is the Bible Still Accurate After 2,000 Years?
  47. Photo Credits