Geneva Bible

This article deals with the English "Geneva Bible". For the French "Geneva Bible" see: Bible de Genève .

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The Geneva Bible (Engl. Geneva Bible ), sometimes called Geneva Bible called, is an English translation of the Bible , which was published since 1557th

translation

The Calvinist William Whittingham , who had fled England from the persecution of Mary I , worked with others in Geneva to revise the English Bible. The basis of the revision was the Bible translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale , which were compared with the Greek original text of the New Testament and the Hebrew original text of the Old Testament. The New Testament of the Geneva Bible first appeared in 1557. The first complete version of the Geneva Bible then appeared in 1560 and was thus able to compete with the officially recognized Bishop 's Bible .

However, the notes in the Geneva Bible had a strong Calvinist and Puritan character, which the Church of England , as well as the English King James I, greatly displeased. In order to replace the now successful Geneva Bible, the English Bible was revised again at the beginning of the 17th century. This King James version was published in 1611 .

Between 1560 and 1640 the Geneva Bible was published in 96 editions, eight of which appeared after the King James was published. All editions prior to 1575 were printed outside of England.

literature

expenditure

• The Geneva Bible. 1560 edition . Hendrickson Bibles, Peabody MA 2007, ISBN 978-1-59856-212-5 .
• 1599 Geneva Bible - The Calvin Legacy Edition . Tolle Lege Press, White Hall WV 2008, ISBN 978-0-9754846-6-1 .

Secondary literature

• David Daniell : The Bible in English. Its History and Influence. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 2003, ISBN 0-300-09930-4 .

Web links

Commons : Geneva Bible  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Geneva Bible online (text of the Geneva Bible)
• Geneva Bible Text ( Memento of October 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (Text of the Geneva Bible)
• Modern Spelling Geneva Bible with Footnotes for the Gospels (text of the Geneva Bible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Tyndale Bible Translation and Coverdale Bible , etc.
2. ↑ A spell-corrected version of the Geneva Bible 1599 of the Restoration Project , without illustrations; See Tollelegepress.com - 1599 Edition ( Memento from November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).