Rehberger Bible

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The Rehberger Bible or Rehberger Edition is a Luther Bible that was published in 1765 in the Nuremberg printing house Johann Andrea Endter and was only published once.

The full title of the edition is: Biblia, This is all of the Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, such as those of Doctor Martin Luther seel. In the year of Christ 1522 started to translate into our German mother tongue and was brought to an end in 1534, including its prefaces, glosses and parallel passages, and this with the soul. Mr. Lutheri and his family, adorned as other portraits along with the same life lines and various, completely newly made, beautiful copper plates. At the end of this entire work of the Bible, along with the unchanged Augspurgic Confession, the biblical time calculation and various useful registers have been printed. Formerly published with a preface by Mr. Johann Michael Dillherrns, but now again and with all diligence, provided with a few short comments and edifying uses and accompanied by a preface by Mr. Andreas Rehberger, preacher at St. Jacob.

The Bible print is named after the person who provided the edition, who added short comments, useful applications and a preface. The Protestant theologian Andreas Rehberger (1716–1769) was pastor of Nuremberg-St. Jobst and from 1761 from Nürnberg-St. Jacobi. Rehberger was a member of the Pegnitz Order ( Pegnesian Flower Order ) and has written some smaller theological writings and many spiritual songs and poems.

The Bible has the following collation : 20 sheets, 1,250 pages, 5 sheets, 388 pages, 33 sheets Format: Folio; 41 cm high, 28 cm deep, 14 cm wide.

It contains two engraved frontispieces , 12 engraved portraits, six engraved subtitles and five further full-page copper plates, one of which is double-sheet. The copper panels in the foreword show eleven portraits of electoral princes and dukes of Saxony as well as Martin Luther and his family. The remaining engravings show both biblical scenes and allegorical representations.

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