![]() When the Pilgrims went to America, they took Geneva Bibles with them. In 1579 the Scottish parliament commanded that every household with adequate means should buy a Geneva Bible. For the next few centuries, the Geneva Bible would be the English Bible. It was a book suitable, not just for displaying in churches, but for family reading.Īnd read it they did. Most exciting of all, it was the first Bible entirely translated from the Hebrew and the Greek. It was the first with chapter/verse divisions, the first with a legible font and a reasonable size, the first with italics to show what words were not in the original languages, and the first to include maps, marginal notes, chronologies and indices. The translators were William Whitingham (an Englishman who married Calvin’s sister), Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and Miles Coverdale.Īlthough the Geneva Bible built upon Tyndale and the Great Bible, it was a huge advance in scholarship, and it was very much the first reader-friendly text. While there, the English exiles made a new and improved English translation. Many English Protestants fled to Geneva, where John Calvin was reforming the city and making it increasingly Protestant. Anyone who wanted to escape martyrdom had to flee to the European continent. After Henry VIII and his son died, the very Catholic Mary brought the nation back to Catholicism and killed the most prominent Protestant leaders. It was published in 1539, and the king commanded that large copies be displayed in churches.ĭespite that, the situation in England was precarious. Tyndale’s own friend Miles Coverdale managed to get the king to authorize an English translation of the Bible based largely upon Tyndale’s translation. Henry VIII, king of England, broke from the Roman Catholic Church, famously so that he could divorce his wife. However, before he was strangled at the stake, changes had already taken place in his native land. He translated the entire New Testament, the Pentateuch, and various other books in the Old Testament before he was captured by the authorities and executed. Tyndale famously vowed that he would make sure that even a lowly plowboy would be able to know more Scripture than the average theologian. The story of the translation of a complete Bible into English begins with Tyndale. What is the story of this translation and why was it forgotten? ![]() Surprisingly, although this is one of the most important historical translations of the Bible into English, translated before the King James Version, and was popular with the Puritans, nobody reads this Bible anymore. ![]() We have set out to create a beautiful, functional, modernized version of the Geneva Bible, the English Bible translated in Geneva under the direction of John Calvin in 1560.
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