Wow-tough question to answer. A far back as Moses, he was commanded by God to write God's words in a book, so it has been written and read since then. As for the entire Bible, what we know as The Bible today (Textus Receptus, or the Received text, the text used by the first century churches, and used to translate the King James Bible) can be found in various versions, primarily New testament, as far back, in a nearly complete form, as the second century. Before that, it was in sections, read and passed around to various churches. William Tyndale produced the first English New Testament in the 16th century, and was subsequently killed for it by the catholic church. nice guys.
The first printed Bible was the Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1456.
The earliest bibles - indeed all books - were written by hand, the first printed bible was the Guttenberg Bible, printed in 1454 or 1455.
The Geneva Bible
The Bible.
Monks hand printed the Bible until Gutenberg invited the printing press in 1450. The first book he printed was the Bible.
The Bible
It depends how you define missionary. Gutenberg printed the first Bible. The bible was printed by Gutenberg under the direction and with the help of the Catholic Church. i feel that the decision to make the bible the first book they printed was a rather "missionary" move of all of them.
If the question is referring to when the bible was first mass printed using a printing press, then the answer to that is that the bible was the first book ever printed using a printing press in 1455AD by Joannes Gutenberg. If the question is referring to when the bible was first officially canonized and produced by scribes then the answer to that is that the bible was first canonized at the First Council of Nicaea in 325AD.
the first translation was in English while the first bible printed was called guttenbergs bible.
The first thing to be printed on a printing press was the bible.
The first Gutenberg Bible was printed in 1456.
The Bible