P076 A Short History of the English Bible.
P076 A Short History of the English Bible.
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SYNOPTICAL STATEMENT.
[This is added to aid the memory of those who may wish to use this work as a Text-Book.]
1. Preliminary.
1. Early Christianity in Britain.
2. Principal versions previous to first printed Testament:
1.) Greek—Septuagint.
2.) Chaldee or Aramaic—the Targums.
3.) Latin—Vetus Itala; Vulgate.
4.) German—Latter part of ninth century; five undated printed editions before 1477; nine others between 1477 and 1522; 1522, Luther’s New Testament; 1524, Luther’s Bible; Zürich Bible, shortly after.
5.) Other Languages.
6.) 1502 to 1522.
Complutensian Polyglot.
3. Early facilities for studying Hebrew and Greek.
1.) Hebrew—1087-1100, Hebrew in Oxford. 1290, Hebrew MSS. among the monks.
1310, Hebrew in Paris and Oxford. 1320, Hebrew lectureship in Oxford. 1488, First Hebrew Bible printed at Soncino, Italy. 1494,
Hebrew Bible printed at Brescia, Italy. 1503, First Hebrew Grammar at Basle. Switzerland. 1506, Reuchlin’s Hebrew Lexicon.
1518, Bomberg’s first Rabbinical. 1522, Complutensian Polyglot.
1525, Bomberg’s second Rabbinical.
2.) Greek—1360, Greek chair in Florence. 1458, Greek in Paris. 1476, First Greek Grammar.
1478, First Greek Lexicon. 1491, Greek in Oxford. 1509-1514, Erasmus in Cambridge. 1516, Erasmus’ first Greek Testament.1517, Greek lectureship in Oxford. 1519, Wolsey’s chair in Oxford. 1522, Complutensian Polyglot.
4. Early means of learning scriptural truth.
1.) Manuscripts, on parchment, and then on paper.
2.) Religions dramas.
3.) "Bible of the Poor."
4.) "Mirror of Salvation."
5.) "Golden Legend." Pp. 11-16.
2. Early Paraphrases and Versions.
1. Cӕdmon.
2. Aldhelm.
3. Guthlac.
4. Bede.
5. Alfred the Great.
6. Anglo-Saxon Psalter.
7. Durham Book.
8. Rushworth Gloss.
9. Ælfric.
10. Anglo-Norman Psalter.
11. The "Ormulum."
12. "Sowlehele."
13. Metrical version of Genesis and Exodus.
14. De Schorham’s Psalter.
15. Rolle’s Psalter. [All the above before the middle of the fourteenth century.] Pp. 17, 18.