When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. New Testament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

    The New Testament was transmitted through thousands of manuscripts in various languages and church quotations and contains variants. Textual criticism uses surviving manuscripts to reconstruct the oldest version feasible and to chart the history of the written tradition. [3] The New Testament has varied reception among Christians today.

  3. Historical background of the New Testament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_background_of...

    The New Testament (the half of the Christian Bible that provides an account of Jesus's life and teachings, and the orthodox history of the early Christian Church) The Talmud (the main compendium of Rabbinal debates, legends, and laws) The Tanakh (the redacted collection of Jewish religious writings from the period)

  4. Dating the Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dating_the_Bible

    This table summarises the chronology of the main tables and serves as a guide to the historical periods mentioned. Much of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament may have been assembled in the 5th century BCE. [7] The New Testament books were composed largely in the second half of the 1st century CE. [8] The deuterocanonical books fall largely in between.

  5. Matthew Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Bible

    The Matthew Bible was the combined work of three individuals, working from numerous sources in at least five different languages. The entire New Testament (first published in 1526 and later revised in 1534), the Pentateuch, Jonah and in David Daniell's view, [1] the Book of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings, and First and Second Chronicles, were the work of ...

  6. Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible

    The term "Bible" can refer to the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Bible, which contains both the Old and New Testaments. [2]The English word Bible is derived from Koinē Greek: τὰ βιβλία, romanized: ta biblia, meaning "the books" (singular βιβλίον, biblion). [3]

  7. Early Modern English Bible translations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English_Bible...

    The King James Version was first published in 1611 as a complete Bible (Herbert #309) and a New Testament (Herbert #310). Translated by 47 translators using the widest range of source texts, it became known as the "Authorized Version" in England and is the most widely used of the Early Modern English Bible translations.

  8. Early translations of the New Testament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_translations_of_the...

    They were written before the first revisions of the Greek New Testament and are therefore the most highly regarded. They are obligatorily cited in all critical editions of the Greek text-type. Translations produced after 300 ( Armenian , Georgian , Ethiopic ) are already dependent on the reviews, but are nevertheless important and are generally ...

  9. Chapters and verses of the Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the...

    The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses ...