History of the Bible

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.

• 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