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The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew. The Latin Vulgate translation was dominant in Western Christianity through the Middle Ages. Since then, the Bible has been translated into many more languages. English Bible translations also have a rich and varied history of more than a ...
This is the oldest extant translation of the Gospels into an English language. [7] The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a full translation of the four gospels into a West Saxon dialect of Old English. Produced in approximately 990, they are the first translation of all four gospels into English without the Latin text. [5]
One, None, and a Hundred-Thousand, translated into English by Samuel Putnam, 1933. One, No One and One Hundred Thousand translated into English by William Weaver , 1990, Marsilio ( ISBN 0-941419-74-6 ).
Bede (c. 672–735) produced a translation of the Gospel of John into Old English, which he is said to have prepared shortly before his death. This translation is lost; we know of its existence from Cuthbert of Jarrow's account of Bede's death. [6] The Vespasian Psalter [7] (~850–875) is an interlinear gloss of the Book of Psalms in the ...
[1] [2] With regard to the use of Bible translations among biblical scholarship, the New Revised Standard Version is used broadly, [3] but the English Standard Version is emerging as a primary text of choice among biblical scholars and theologians inclined toward theological conservatism. [4] [5] [a]
The 1537 folio edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English. The Psalter from the Coverdale Bible was included in the Great Bible of 1540 and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer beginning in 1662, and in all editions of the U.S. Episcopal Church Book of Common Prayer until 1979.
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The Tyndale Bible (TYN) generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale into Early Modern English, made c. 1522–1535.Tyndale's biblical text is credited with being the first Anglophone Biblical translation to work directly from Greek and, for the Pentateuch, Hebrew texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate and German Bibles.