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  HOW DID WE GET THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH?
  Where did the Bible come from? Who wrote it? Where can we find the first complete copy?

The answers to these questions are not at all clear. The Bible, which became the sacred scripture of the Christian religion, is a collection of ancient writings—in fact, the part of the Bible which Christians call “the Old Testament” was sacred to the Jews long before the birth of Christ.

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The Making of the Old Testament

The First Translations, mid-3rd century BC

The Making of the New Testament, AD 40-150

Translating the Bible into Latin, AD 383-410

The Earliest English Translations, AD 735

The First English Bible, AD 1383

The First Printed Bible, AD 1456

Luther and the German Bible, AD 1522-34

The First Printed New Testament in English, AD 1525

The First Complete Printed Bible in English, AD 1535

Translations from AD 1537 - today

The influence of the Bible

 

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