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BIBLE. [SHEPPARD, GERALD, T., ED.] The Geneva Bible: The Annotated New Testament, 1602 Edition. With Introductory Essays Edited by Gerald T. Sheppard.
New York,, The Pilgrim Press. 1989. (ISBN: 0829807853) . 41 pp. plus 135 folio (i.e. 270 pp.). 4to, quality paperback. Scratch the length of the front cover, else a very good, clean copy. The Geneva Bible, one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible in the English language, preceding the King James translation by 51 years, was the primary Bible of the 16th Century Protestant movement and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower, it was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War. This facsimile of the 1607 edition is reproduced by permission of the British and Foreign Bible Society from a copy in their collection at Cambridge University Library. Like most English translations of the time, the Geneva Bible was translated from scholarly editions of the Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures that comprise the Christian Old Testament. The English rendering was substantially based on the earlier translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale (80-90% of the language in the Genevan New Testament is from Tyndale). However, the Geneva Bible was the first English version in which all of the Old Testament was translated directly from the Hebrew. The annotations, an important part of the Geneva Bible, were Calvinist and Puritan in character, and as such, disliked by the ruling pro-government Protestants of the Church of England, as well as King James I, who commissioned the "Authorized Version," or King James Bible, to replace it. The Geneva Bible had also motivated the earlier production of the Bishops' Bible under Elizabeth I, for the same reason, and the later Rheims-Douai edition by the Catholic community. The Geneva Bible remained popular among Puritans and remained in widespread use until after the English Civil War. With introductory essays by Gerald T. Sheppard, Marvin W. Anderson, John T. Augustine, & Nicholas W.S. Cranfield..
Offered for US$ 35.00 by: John Gunnison-Wiseman Books - Book number: 5451a
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