Metzger, Bruce Manning,

The Bible in translation : ancient and English versions / [print] Bruce M. Metzger. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, (c)2001. - 200 pages ; 22 cm.



Ancient Versions -- Ancient Versions of the Old Testmament Made for the Use of Jews -- The Septuagint -- The Jewish Targums -- Ancient Versions Intended Chiefly for Christians -- The Syriac Versions -- The Latin Versions -- The Coptic Versions -- The Gothic Version -- The Armenian Version -- The Georgian Version -- The Ethiopic Version -- The Arabic Versions -- The Sogdian Version -- The Old Church Slavonic Version -- The Nubian Version -- English Versions -- English Bibles before the King James Version -- The Beginnings of the English Bible -- The Wycliffite Bible (1382; 1388) -- Tyndale and the First Printed English New Testament (1526) -- Coverdale and the First Complete Printed Bible in English (1535) -- Matthew's Bible (1537) -- Taverner's Bible (1539) -- The Great Bible (1539) -- Edmund Becke's Bibles (1549; 1551) -- The Geneva Bible (1560) -- The Bishops' Bible (1568) -- The Rheims-Douay Bible (1582-1610) -- The King James Bible (1611) -- Between the King James Bible and the Revised Version -- Edward Harwood's New Testament (1768) -- Charles Thomson's Bible (1808) -- Noah Webster's Bible (1833) -- Julia E. Smith's Bible (1876) -- The British Revised Version (1881-85) and the American Standard Version (1901) -- Early Modern-Speech Versions -- The Twentieth Century New Testament (1901; 1904) -- Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech (1903) -- Moffatt's Translation of the Bible (1913; 1924-25) -- Smith and Goodspeed's American Translation (1923; 1927) -- The Revised Standard Version (1952) -- The Jerusalem Bible (1966).



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