The History of the English Bible

by John Brown

Excerpt from The History of the English Bible

A ms. Of the later version of Wyclifl'e's Bible of the 14th century.

Tyndale's Pentateuch, 1530. 4. Coverdale's Bible. 5. The Great Bible, 1539. The Geneva Bible, The Bishops' Bible, 1568. Original title-page of the Authorised Versmn.

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

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John Brown, 1830-1922, was a British theologian, historian, and pastor. He was born in 1830. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Doctor of Divinity and served as pastor of Bunyan Meeting in the town of Bedford, Bedfordshire in the Eastern part of England. He was the author of several oft referenced works on church history and theology, including an important biography of John Bunyan.

Publicalions:
Lectures on the Book of Revelation, 1860;
God's Book for Man's Life, 1882;
John Bunyan, his Life, Times, and Work, 1885;
The Pilgrim Fathers of New England, 1895;
Apostolical Succession in the Light of History and Fact, 1898;
Puritan Preaching in England, etc., 1900;
From the Restoration to the Revolution, 1904
Commonwealth England, 1904;
The English Puritans, 1910;
History of the English Bible, 1911

Reviews

[Laurie Elliot · Rating 5 out of 5]

I chose this book because I like the narrator ...But at the same time I hoped it would be less riveting than a novel because I felt I couldn't afford to be diverted from my writing project. While it's true that I was tempted away from writing less often than if I had been listening to a novel, this was definitely an interesting read! I finally downloaded the text from archive.org in order to re-read some of the more memorable(quotable) commentary.

[Chad Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

To have a Bible in your own native tongue is such a privilege. This book can be tedious but it’s very thorough. I enjoyed the first few chapters immensely.

[Connor Longaphie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty decent overview of the older translations, but i would prefer something with much more information