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Geneva Bible History. This page was last updated: August 5, Right click, and choose "Save As" on the link above. Please note this file is 24MB. In this article we are going to take a look at the Geneva Bible and the King James Bible , highlighting the different translations into the English language.
As the Geneva Bible was being translated by Protestants during a time of Protestant persecution in England, the translators were forced to converge in Geneva, Switzerland, where they were able to arrange publication of their work.
The original version was first printed in with copies being made from the Geneva press up through , split between two versions of the book. Other places of publication eventually included the Netherlands, Scotland, America and England, leading to the publication of the Geneva Bible in Baptist Christian Forums. We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!
Top Posters. Logos Well-Known Member. As many may know, there was more than one edition of the Geneva Bible. Laurence Tomson edited an edition of the New Testament in that was printed in a number of Geneva Bibles after that time.
The edition commonly reprinted as the Geneva Bible today has the text of Tomson's revision or edition. One of the reported characteristics of Tomson's edition was his use of "that" in several verses for "the," said to be from the influence of Beza.
The KJV kept two or three of Tomson's uses of "that. Some of them were printed after in the Netherlands with a false date and some with a place place of printing [London] perhaps in an attempt to keep the buyers of them from getting in trouble with Archbishop Laud.
Of what differences between these two Geneva Bible editions are you aware? It was like our study Bibles of today, with study guides, cross-referencing, introductions to each Bible book, maps, tables, illustrations, and notes.
Lots of notes! The margins of most pages contained notes on the material, written from the Calvinist perspective of the translators and many written by John Calvin himself. The edition of the Geneva Bible contained the Apocrypha books a group of books written between BC and AD , which are not considered inspired by most Protestant denominations. Most later editions did not. In editions that did contain the Apocrypha, the preface stated that these books did not have the authority and inspiration of the other books of the Bible but could be read for edification.
Very few of the margin notes appeared in the Apocrypha books. When King James I came to the throne, the Protestants had gained control of England and the Church of England needed a Bible for the churches and for the people.
The Bishops Bible was being used in the churches, but many people had a Geneva Bible at home. King James disliked the Geneva Bible, because he felt that the annotations in the margins were too Calvinist, and, more importantly, they questioned the authority of the bishops and of the king! The Bishops Bible was too grandiose in language and the translation work inferior.
The common people liked the notes and other study helps in the Geneva Bible because it helped them understand what they were reading. But King James wanted a Bible that did not have the Calvinist-slanted notes but rather reflected the episcopal church government. It needed to be simple enough for the common people to read as was the Geneva Bible but not the Bishops Bible.
He charged the translators to use the Bishops Bible as a guide. They even snuck in some of the notes from the Geneva Bible in some early editions! The Authorized King James Version was completed and published in and contained the 39 books of the Old Testament, the 27 books of the New Testament, and 14 books of the Apocrypha.
Consequently, King James banned the printing of the Geneva Bible in England and later the archbishop banned the Geneva Bible being imported to England. Printing of the Geneva Bible continued surreptitiously in England.
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