The Bible • The Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament • The Old Testament is the name what Christians have given to the Jewish Scriptures • Mostly written down in Hebrew and and in Aramaic • European Christianity bases on the New Testament which focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus • Written in ancient Greek
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The Bible
• The Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New
Testament • The Old Testament is the name what Christians have given
to the Jewish Scriptures
• Mostly written down in Hebrew and and in Aramaic
• European Christianity bases on the New Testament which focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus
• Written in ancient Greek
Jesus from the New Testament New and Old Testaments
First translations
• In the 8th and early 9th centuries Venerable Bede and Caedamon translated the first small parts of the Bible
• Written in early Anglo-Saxon language
Bede
First Bibles in English
• The first hand-written Bible by John Wyclif in the 1380's
• In 1525 William Tyndale was the first to print the New Testament in the English language
John Wyclif
King James Bible
• In 1611 King James I made a translation to end all translations
• After that time over 300 corrections
• The New King James Version in 1982
The language
• Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995): “God lufode middan-eard swa, dat he seade his an-cennedan sunu, dat nan ne forweorde de on hine gely
ac habbe dat ece lif.“
• Wycliff (1380): “For god loued so the world; that he gaf his oon bigetun sone, that eche man that bileueth in him perisch not: but haue euerlastynge liif,"
• Tyndale (1525): "For God so loveth the worlde, that he hath geven his only sonne, that none that beleve in him, shuld perisshe: but shuld have
everlastinge lyfe."
• King James (1611): "For God so loued the world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue