| The Influence of the Bible | |
| The
influence of the English Bible, particularly the King
James Version, on both the language and culture of English-speaking people
over the past three centuries has been incalculable. Its phrases are everywhere
in our daily speech, in our historical documents, and in our literature. Moreover, the Bible has inspired people in all walks of life, and ideas contained in it have stimulated many humanitarian endeavours. Hundreds of men and women have also suffered hardships and even risked death to carry the knowledge of the Bible to the far corners of the earth, having to learn to speak many different languages in order to convey its message. The Book that began as the holy writings of an obscure nation in the tiny country of Palestine has now gone around the world. | |
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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 |