The Bible

• The Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New

Testament • The Old Testament is the name what Christians have given

to the Jewish Scriptures

• Mostly written down in Hebrew and and in Aramaic

• European Christianity bases on the New Testament which focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus

• Written in ancient Greek

Jesus from the New Testament New and Old Testaments

First translations

• In the 8th and early 9th centuries Venerable Bede and Caedamon translated the first small parts of the Bible

• Written in early Anglo-Saxon language

Bede

First Bibles in English

• The first hand-written Bible by John Wyclif in the 1380's

• In 1525 William Tyndale was the first to print the New Testament in the English language

John Wyclif

King James Bible

• In 1611 King James I made a translation to end all translations

• After that time over 300 corrections

• The New King James Version in 1982

The language

• Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995): “God lufode middan-eard swa, dat he seade his an-cennedan sunu, dat nan ne forweorde de on hine gely

ac habbe dat ece lif.“

• Wycliff (1380): “For god loued so the world; that he gaf his oon bigetun sone, that eche man that bileueth in him perisch not: but haue euerlastynge liif,"

• Tyndale (1525): "For God so loveth the worlde, that he hath geven his only sonne, that none that beleve in him, shuld perisshe: but shuld have

everlastinge lyfe."

• King James (1611): "For God so loued the world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue

euerlasting life."

The End