Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Important Moments in Bible Translation History


Important Moments in Bible Translation History            
     
The Year followed by the Bible or Text followed by the Language


2nd Temple     Aramaic Targums     Aramaic         
300bc-70ad     Apocryphal Writings               
280 B.C.     The Septuagint (LXX)     Greek         
200bc-200ad     Pseudepigrapha Writings               
170 A.D.     Tatian's Diatessaron     Syriac    
2nd Century     Theodotion's LXX     Greek          
2nd Century     Aquila's LXX     Greek          
2-3rd Century     Symmachus Translation     Greek          
200 A.D.     Papyrus Bodmer 2, 14, 15     Greek          
200 A.D.     Sahidic Old Testament     Coptic          
240 c.     Origen's Hexapla     Various          
3rd Century     Chester Beatty Papyrus 1,2,3     Greek          
4th Century     Codex Sinaiticus (Aleph)     Greek          
4th Century     Vatican Mss 1209 (B)     Greek          
405 A.D.     The Latin Vulgate/Jerome     Latin         
5th Century     Codex Alexandrinus (A)     Greek          
5th Century     Syriac Peshitta     Aramaic         
5th Century     Curetonian Syriac     Old Syriac          
5th Century     Codex Ephraemi     Greek          
450 A.D.     Ulfilas Gothic Bible     Gothic         
5-6th Cent.     Codex Bezae     Greek/Latin          
6-11th Cent.     Masoretic Text     Hebrew          
8th Century     Book of Kells     Celtic         
895 A.D.     Cairo Codex     Hebrew          
930 A.D.     Aleppo Codex     Hebrew          
950 A.D.     Lindisfarne Gospels     Latin          
9th Century     Latin Vulgate-Clementine Edition     Latin          
9th Century     Cyril&Methodius Slavinoc Bible     Slavonic          
9th Century     King Alfred's translation (partial)     O. English          
10th Century     Aelfric translates Genesis-Judges     O. English          
1008 A.D.     Leningrad Codex     Hebrew          
10-11 Cent.     West Saxon Gospels     Saxon         
10-11 Cent.     Notker Labeo Job&Psalms     Latin/German          
1180 A.D.c     Waldenses Ancient Vaudois version     Provencal          
1370 A.D.     Psalter by Henry of Mugeln     German          
13-14th Cent.     Catalan Bible     Spanish          
1380-82     Wycliffe Bible (Nicholas)     English          
1384-90     Wycliffe Bible (J Purvey)     English          
1385 A.D.     Shem Tob's Gospel of Matthew     Hebrew         
1422 A.D.     Alba Bible     Spanish          
1456 A.D.     Gutenberg Bible     Latin        
1514-17     Polyglot Bible     Various          
1516 A.D.     Erasmus Greek NT     Greek/Latin          
1518 A.D.     Erasmus Greek NT-2nd Edition     Greek          
1522 A.D.     Erasmus Greek NT-3rd Edition     Greek          
1522-34     Martin Luther's Bible     German         
1525 A.D.     Tyndale's Version     English         
1527 A.D.     Erasmus Greek NT-4th Edition     Greek          
1530-32     Brucioli     Italian          
1537 A.D.     Coverdale's Version     English          
1537 A.D.     Matthew Bible (from Coverdale)     English          
1539 A.D.     The Great Bible     English          
1539-52     Taverner (from Matthew)     English          
1550 A.D.     Stephanus Greek Text     Greek         
1555 A.D.     J. du Tillet's Gospel of Matthew     Hebrew          
1557-1602     Geneva Bible     English         
1565-1604     Theodore Beza's Greek NT     Greek          
1568-1606     The Bishop's Bible     English          
1575-79     Latin Bible of Tremellio and Junio     Latin          
1582-1610     Douay-Rheims Bible     English         
1610 A.D.     Reina-Valera     Spanish         
1611 A.D.     King James Version     English         
1633 A.D.     Elzevir's Textus Receptus/Received Text     Greek          
1637 A.D.     Statenvertaling     Dutch         
1640 A.D.     Bay Psalm Book     English         
1653 A.D.     A Paraphrase/Annotation of N.T. by Hammond     English        
1653 A.D.     John Milton's Psalms     English        
1657 A.D.     Dutch Annot. On the Whole Bible/Haak     English        
1661 A.D.     Eliot Indian Bible     Algonquin        
1681-91     Almeida     Portuguese          
1685 A.D.     New Testament with Paraphrase/R. Baxter     English          
1690 A.D.     Samuel Clarke Bible     English          
1703 A.D.     Paraphrase/Comm. On the N.T. by D Whitby     English          
1718 A.D.     The New Testament by Cornelius Nary     English          
1724 A.D.     The Common Trans. corrected by E. Wells     English          
1729 A.D.     New Testament in Grk and Eng. By Dav. Mace     Grk/English          
1730 A.D.     Annotations on the N.T./Robert Witham     English          
1730 A.D.     New Testament by William Webster     English          
1745-90     John Wesley New Testament     English         
1745 A.D.     Primitive New Testament by W. Whiston     English        
1752 A.D.     Exposition of N.T. by John Guyse     English        
1755 A.D.     The Family Expositor by P. Doddridge     English          
1761 A.D.     An Interpretation of the N.T./John Heylin     English          
1764 A.D.     A New and Literal Translation/Purver     English          
1764 A.D.     New Testament collated w/Grk by Rich. Wynne     English          
1765 A.D.     New Trans. of New Testament by Sam. Palmer     English          
1768 A.D.     A Liberal Translation of the N.T./Ed. Harwood     English          
1770 A.D.     John Worsley New Testament     English          
1773 A.D.     Universal Family Bible/Henry Southwell     English          
1774 A.D.     Old Testament by Anselm Bayly     English          
1775-77     Griesbach New Testament Text     Greek          
1778 A.D.     Bible in Verse/John Fellows     English          
1790 A.D.     The Four Gospels by George Campbell     English          
1790-93     Scio Bible     Spanish          
1791-95     G.Wakefield New Testament     English          
1795 A.D.     A New Literal Translation by J. MacKnight     English          
1795 A.D.     Thomas Haweis New Testament     English          
1795 A.D.     Samuel Clarke/Thomas Pyle New Testament     English          
1796 A.D.     William Newcome New Testament     English          
1798 A.D.     Nathaniel Scarlett New Testament     English          
1799-1815     a Revised Translation & Interpretation/McRae     English          
1808 A.D.     Septuagint by Charles Thomson     English          
1808 A.D.     NT in an Improved Version/Newcome     English         
1812 A.D.     William Williams New Testament     English        
1815 A.D.     Gospels by Charles Thomson     English        
1816 A.D.     NT in an Improved Version/Newcome/Belsham     English          
1816 A.D.     William Thomson New Testament     English          
1822 A.D.     Abner Kneeland New Testament     English          
1823 A.D.     A New Family Bible by Boothroyd     English          
1824 A.D.     John Wilkins Revised Testament     English          
1826 A.D.     Alexander Campbell New Testament     English          
1827 A.D.     G.R. Noyes New Testament     English          
1828 A.D.     J.G. Palfrey New Testament     English          
1830 A.D.     Egbert Benson Epistles     English          
1831 A.D.     Lachmann's Greek Testament     Greek          
1833 A.D.     Webster's Bible     English         
1833 A.D.     The Sacred Writings by MacKnight/Campbell     English        
1833 A.D.     Rodolphus Dickinson New Testament     English        
1833-37     G.R. Noyes Prophets     English        
1834 A.D.     Holy Bible by George Townsend     English        
1835 A.D.     Holy Writings of the 1st Christians/Caldecott     English        
1836 A.D.     G. Penn New Covenant     English          
1841 A.D.     Holy Bible with 20,000 emendations/Conquest     English          
1841-72     Tischendorf's Greek Text-8 Editions     Greek         
1842 A.D.     A.C. Kendrick Bible     English        
1842-50     Lachmann's Greek Testament-2nd Edition     Greek          
1844 A.D.     Holy Bible by T.J. Hussey     English          
1845 A.D.     Isaac Leeser O.T.     English          
1848 A.D.     Jonathan Morgan New Testament     English          
1849-60     F.P. Kenrick Bible     English          
1849 A.D.     J.W. Etheridge New Testament     English          
1849 A.D.     Nathan Whiting New Testament     English          
1850 A.D.     Cone & Wyckoff New Testament     English          
1851 A.D.     Septuagint w/Apocrypha by Brenton     Greek/English         
1852 A.D.     The New Testament from the Syriac/J.Murdock     English          
1852 A.D.     Hezekiah Woodruff New Testament     English          
1854 A.D.     Emphatic New Testament by John Taylor     English          
1855 A.D.     Andrews Norton Gospels     English          
1855-71     Elberfelder Bible     German         
1856 A.D.     The New Testament by Samuel Sharpe     English        
1857 A.D.     John Bengel New Testament     English        
1857-72     Tregelles Greek Text     Greek          
1858 A.D.     Alexander Vance Old Testament     English          
1858-64     Leicester Sawyer Bible     English          
1861 A.D.     Jewish School&Family Bible/A. Benisch     English          
1861 A.D.     Leonard Thorn New Testament     English          
1862-64     American Bible Union New Testament (partial)     English          
1862-98     Young's Literal Translation     English         
1864 A.D.     H.T. Anderson New Testament     English        
1864 A.D.     Emphatic Diaglott     Greek/English      
1865 A.D.     Twofold New Testament/Thomas Green     English        
1867 A.D.     Inspired Version by Joseph Smith     English          
1869 A.D.     Henry Alford N.T.     English          
1869 A.D.     Robert Ainslie New Testament     English          
1869 A.D.     Nathaniel Folsom Gospels     English          
1870 A.D.     J. Bowes New Testament     English          
1870 A.D.     Gotch&Jacob Holy Bible     English          
1871-90     J.N. Darby Translation     English         
1873-80     Louis Segond     French         
1875 A.D.     John McLellan New Testament     English        
1875 A.D.     Samuel Davidson New Testament     English        
1876 A.D.     Julia Smith Bible     English        
1878-1902     The Emphasized Bible/Rotherham     English        
1880 A.D.     Hermann Gollancz Bible     English        
1881 A.D.     The Greek Testament Englished/Crickmer     English        
1881 A.D.     Westcott and Hort Greek Text     Greek         
1883 A.D.     Cortes Jackson New Testament     English        
1884 A.D.     The Englishman's Bible/Thomas Newberrry     English        
1884-86 A.D.     New Covenant by J.W. Hanson     English        
1885 A.D.     Teaching & Acts of Jesus by W.D. Dillard     English        
1885 A.D.     Helen Spurrell Old Testament     English        
1885-95     English Revised Version     English          
1892 A.D.     Biblia Innocentium by John Mackail     English          
1893 A.D.     Reina-Valera     Spanish          
1894 A.D.     F.H.A. Scrivener's Received Text/TR     Greek         
1894-1905     Crampon     French          
1893 A.D.     John Peters and Edward Bartlett Scriptures     English          
1895 A.D.     Ferrar Fenton     English          
1897 A.D.     New Dispensation by Robert Weekes     English          
1898 A.D.     Epistles of Paul in Modern English/Stevens     English          
1900 A.D.     20th Century New Testament     English          
1901 A.D.     American Standard Version     English         
1902-13     Von Soden's Apparatus     Greek          
1904 A.D.     Worrell's New Testament     English          
1905 A.D.     Godbey New Testament     English          
1910 A.D.     Alexander Souter's Greek NT     Greek          
1912 A.D.     Weymouth's New Testament     English         
1917 A.D.     The Holy Scriptures/Jewish Publication Society     English         
1922 A.D.     James Moffatt Bible     English        
1924 A.D.     Centenary Version New Testament     English        
1924 A.D.     Montgomery New Testament     English        
1926 A.D.     Concordant Literal New Testament     English         
1929 A.D.     Westminster Version     English        
1933 A.D.     George M. Lamsa Translation     English        
1934 A.D.     Riverside New Testament/Ballantine     English        
1935 A.D.     An American Translation/Smith&Goodspeed     English        
1937 A.D.     Charles B. Williams New Testament     English        
1938 A.D.     The Book of Books/R.M. Wilson     English        
1940 A.D.     Spencer New Testament     English        
1941 A.D.     Confraternity Bible     English        
1941 A.D.     Bible in Basic English     English         
1942 A.D.     Nestle's Greek Text     Greek          
1943 A.D.     Jose Bover's Text     Greek          
1945 A.D.     Modern Language Bible/New Berkeley Version     English          
1945 A.D.     Nag Hammadi Library Discovered          
1945 A.D.     New Testament by Monsignor Ronald A. Knox     English          
1946-51     Revised Standard Version     English         
1947 A.D.     Swann New Testament     English        
1947 A.D.     New Testament Letters by J.W.C. Wand     English        
1947 A.D.     1QIs Dead Sea Scrolls     Greek          
1948 A.D.     Augustinus Merk Text     Greek          
1948 A.D.     Letchworth Version     English          
1950-63     Holy Name bible/Traina     English          
1950-61     New World Translation     English  
1951-55     Kittel's Biblia Hebraica     Hebrew          
1951-61     Simplified New Testament by Norlie     English          
1956 A.D.     Laubach's Inspired Letters of the N.T.     English          
1956 A.D.     Kleist&Lilly New Testament     English          
1960 A.D.     New Testament in Modern English/J.B.Phillips               
1960-71     New American Standard Version     English         
1961 A.D.     New Testament-Expanded Translation/Wuest     English        
1961 A.D.     Noli New Testament     English        
1961 A.D.     Dartmouth Bible     English        
1962-82     New Testament by Richmond Lattimore     English        
1965 A.D.     The Amplified Bible     English          
1966 A.D.     Good News Bible/Today's English Version     English          
1966 A.D.     The Jerusalem Bible     English          
1969 A.D.     Kingdom Interlinear Translation     Greek/English        
1969 A.D.     Barclay New Testament     English          
1969 A.D.     New Life New Testament/Ledyard     English          
1970 A.D.     The New American Bible     English         
1970 A.D.     Restoration of the Sacred Name Bible     English        
1970 A.D.     New English Bible     English          
1972 A.D.     The Living Bible     English          
1972 A.D.     Common Bible-RSV     English          
1972 A.D.     The Bible in Living English/S.T. Byington     English          
1973 A.D.     Cotton Patch Version     English          
1973 A.D.     Jewish Family Bible     English          
1975 A.D.     Word Made Fresh/Edington     English          
1975 A.D.     United Bible Societies Text     Greek          
1976 A.D.     Hodges-Farstad Majority Text     Greek          
1976 A.D.     An American Translation by William F. Beck     Hebrew          
1977 A.D.     Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia     Hebrew          
1978 A.D.     New International Version     English         
1978 A.D.     Simple English Bible     English          
1979 A.D.     King James Version II/Jay P Green     Greek/English          
1979 A.D.     New King James Version     English         
1979 A.D.     Nestle-Aland Greek Text     Greek         
1980 A.D.     Versified Rendering of the Gospels/Faw     English        
1980-96     The Literal Translation of the Holy Bible     English         
1983-88     New Century Version     English        
1984 A.D.     Inclusive Language New Testament     English        
1985 A.D.     The Original New Testament/Schonfield     English        
1985 A.D.     Tanakh-New Jewish P. Society     English        
1985-91     Recovery Version     English        
1985 A.D.     New Jerusalem Bible     English        
1987-99     World Bible Translation     English         
1989 A.D.     Jewish New Testament     English        
1989 A.D.     Revised English Bible     English        
1989 A.D.     Heinz Cassirer New Testament     English        
1989 A.D.     McCord's New Testament     English        
1989 A.D.     New Revised Standard Version     English         
1990 A.D.     New Evangelical Translation     English        
1991 A.D.     Unvarnished New Testament by Andy Gaus     English         
1995 A.D.     Contemporary English Version     English        
1993 A.D.     Worldwide English Bible     English         
1993 A.D.     The Five Gospels/Jesus Seminar     English        
1993 A.D.     The Message-New Testament     English        
1994 A.D.     21st Century King James Version     English         
1995 A.D.     An Inclusive Version     English        
1995 A.D.     Robinson-Pierpont Majority Text     Greek         
1995-98     New International readers Version     English        
1995-2001     NET Bible     English         
1996 A.D.     Schocken Bible/Everett Fox     English        
1996 A.D.     Three Gospels/R. Price     English         
1996 A.D.     God's Word Bible     English         
1996 A.D.     New Living Translation     English         
1999 A.D.     21st Century New Testament     English        
1999 A.D.     Modern King James Version     English         
1999 A.D.     New Millenium Bible/Wallace     English        
1999 A.D.     World English Bible     English         
1999 to…     Original Bible Project     English         
2000 A.D.     HCSB New Testament     English         
2000 A.D.     International English Bible     English         
2000 A.D.     New English Trans. of Septuagint/Pietersma     English          
2001 A.D.     English Standard Version     English  

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