He invented Calvinism and published the Geneva Bible
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Yes, it is the oldest English translated Bible.Answer:The first true English Bible is Wycliffe's translation published in 1382. Tyndale's Bible, which was more accurate was published in 1525. Other English translations prior to The King James version (published 1611) include the Coverdale Bible (1535), Roger's Bible (1537), and the Geneva Bible (1560).
It was completed in 1599
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It was completed in 1599
According to the Talmudic tradition, the division of the text of the Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament) into verses is of ancient origin.The first Christian Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published in 1560, which preceded the King James translation by 51 years.
There are over fifty complete versions of the bible that have been published, ranging from the King James version to the Douay-Rheims bible. The earliest bible is Wycliffe's Bible, published in 1380.
The first complete Bible translation in Tagalog, referred to as the "Ang Biblia," was published in 1905 by the American Bible Society. Prior to this, there were earlier translations of parts of the Bible in Tagalog, but this was the first complete version.
During the reign of Queen Mary I of England (1553 - 1558), a number of Protestant scholars fled from England to Geneva in Switzerland, which was then ruled as a republic in which John Calvin andTheodore Beza provided the primary spiritual and theological leadership. Among these scholars was William Whittingham, who supervised the translation now known as the Geneva Bible, in collaboration with Myles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and Willian Cole; several of this group later became prominent figures in the Vestments controversy. Whittingham was directly responsible for the New Testament, which was complete and published in 1557 while Gilby oversaw the Old Testament.
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