Bible question

[Currency Pair Crocodile]

Originally Posted by gatitosmommy

can someone tell me which, if any, regular English-language Bible/s existed before the King James version?

I don't wanna drive you nuts.

But I'd seriously suggest anyone to learn Latin and take a look at the Vulgate.

It's a privilege. An honour

The next step would be the Septuagint. I am at this stage right now, though Greek is tough to learn. I just know all the alphabets and its variants from Physics.

The English translations have corrupted the meaning of several verses, contexts of the early Bible.

[JamesMRohde]

Several have here said Tyndale (b.1491-d.1536) was the translator of the first English Bible. This is not true. He did refer to Greek manuscripts to revise the work of Wycliffe on the N.T.

Born about 1329 and died Dec 31, 1384, John Wycliffe was the great forerunner of the Reformation of the 1500's. He was the first to give the complete Bible to English speakers with the help of several compatriots at Oxford, Nicholas de Hereford and John Purvey. He was ordained a priest, was a doctor of theology and a canon of Lincoln and later rector of Lutterworth. Though in the Roman Catholic Church, he advocated opposition to the Pope's authority. There were 4 popes at the time. The Lollards were a result of Wycliffe's ministry.

The Roman Institutional Church began to burn heretics to death in England about 1401, later than the rest of Europe. It lasted for over 200 years. Of course they were only imitating their idea of God. They claimed to consign you to temporal fire in order that your soul might be saved from eternal fire. To know the 10 Commandments, the Lord's prayer or the Ave Maria in English, or to have any portion of the Bible in English was sufficient proof of heresy. They would take a rolled up English Scripture portion if it was found with you and put it under your chin, lighting it afire along with the wood surrounding the stake.

There were bits and pieces of English Scripture before. There was a Gothic translation, a language out of which English grew.