Scofield Bible

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The Scofield Bible is a widely used study Bible annotated and edited by theologian Cyrus I Scofield .

This Bible edition was first published in 1909 as the Scofield Reference Bible . The first revision took place in 1917. Since 1967, Oxford University Press has published a revised version in which some particularly idiosyncratic remarks by Scofield were tempered. The original edition was based on the text of the English King James Bible of 1611. The Oxford edition contains a slightly modernized version of this translation. For the German edition, Scofield's comments were translated into German by Gertrud Wasserzug . The first German edition was based on the Luther translation in the revised version from 1914, later the Elberfeld Bible translation .

The Scofield Bible became very popular because it contained some important innovations. For the first time, a chain system was used to connect related Bible verses , making it easier for the reader to follow a topic across different biblical books. It also contains an attempt to date the biblical events chronologically . Thus, the commentary provides a date or an approximate date for each page of the Bible . Many fundamentalist Christians therefore found a creation date in the Scofield Bible that dates back to 4004 BC. BC ( see also Ussher-Lightfoot calendar ). The authority of the Scofield Bible then sparked much discussion about creationism .

The Scofield Bible teaches the idea of dispensationalism , which gave it a great influence in the United States. Scofield's comments on the Bible text Ezekiel 38 prophesied that Russia would play a role in the Battle of Armageddon in the future . These and similar observations, the Scofield Reference Bible form the basis of chronological tables of the end time and speculation.

See also

literature

  • R. Todd Mangum, Mark S. Sweetnam: The Scofield Bible. Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church. Paternoster Publishing, Colorado Springs CO 2009, ISBN 978-1-60657-033-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Holthaus:  Wasserzug, Gertrud Margarete Elisabeth. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1515-1522.