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The Bible of the Protestant Reformation

Sixteenth century English Protestant scholars were determined to make the scriptures understandable to common people, so that, as William Tyndale famously put it, the boy that driveth the plough should know more of the scriptures than the educated man.

However, Queen Mary s (1553 1558) persecution of her Protestant subjects caused many to flee to the continent to avoid imprisonment or execution. Geneva, Switzerland soon became a center for Protestant biblical scholarship. It was there that a group of the movement s leading lights...

With the J.P.S Translation

The Oxford RSV Catholic Bible features a Presentation Section, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), a section of Prayers and Devotions of the Catholic Faith and a table of Weights and Measures in the Bible.

This beautiful compact bible is available at a...

An Award or Presentation Bible in the King James Version: ideal as a gift or to keep

The full text of the Popular size King James or Authorized Version Bible, in a straightforward black imitation leather hardback binding.

La versian castellana de la Biblia de Jerusalan, entre las versiones de las Sagradas Escrituras en nuestralengua, tiene un salido prestigio por la calidad de su traduccian y por la profundidad de sus introducciones, notas y comentarios, de tal manera que es muy atil parala formacian ba-blica tanto de seminaristas, Como de religiosos y laicos. Ahora ha querido dar un paso mas y es el de preparar una versian latinoamericana, con un lenguaje mas adaptado a nuestra manera de halar el castellano, sin perder el toque de elegancia ni la precisian terminolagica, y sin caer en los...

Here is John Wycliffe's greatest accomplishment: the translation of the Holy Scriptures into MIddle English. Producing the first complete English Bible, Wycliffe was the first to set aside Latin as the language of the Scriptures and reach the English people in their own tongue. Working from contemporary manuscripts of the Latin Vulgate, he sought "no strange English," but only the easiest, most common – albeit the most Latin-like language possible. (Latin constructions and word order were preserved even where they conflicted with English idiom.)

His work was used by the...