A Dictionary of the English Bible and its Origins

Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

Abbott, Walter Matthew

Additions.

Adulterous Bible, 1631.

Aelfric

Agnus Dei, An, 1601.

Agrapha.

Akibah, Rabbi

Alcalá, Spain.

Alcuin

Aldhelm

Aleppo, Syria.

Alexander, Alexander

Alexandria, Egypt.

Alexandrian Text.

Alford, Henry

Alfred the Great

Allen, William

Allestry, Richard

American Bible Society.

American Standard Version, 1901.

Amplified Bible, 1958 (NT), 1964 (complete).

Andrewes, Lancelot

Annotated Paragraph Bible, 1838.

Antiochan Text.

Antwerp, Belgium.

Antwerp Polyglot, 1569–72.

Apocrypha.

Aquila

Arabic Versions.

Aramaic Language.

Arbuthnot, Alexander

Armenian Version.

Arundel, Thomas

Athanasius

Augustine

Authentic New Testament, 1955.

Authorized Version of St John's Gospel, revised by Five Clergymen, 1857.

Authorized Version, 1611.

Autograph.

Babylonian Recension.

Ballantine, William G.

Barclay, William

Barker, Robert

Barrow, John

Basel, Switzerland.

Basic English Bible.

Bauer, Georg Lorenz

Becke, Edmund

Bede

Belgica, 1561.

Belsham, Thomas

Ben Asher.

Ben Sira, Jeshua

Bengel, Johann Albrecht

Benisch, Abraham

Benoit, Pierre

Bensley, Thomas

Bentley, Richard

Berkeley Version, 1945 (NT), 1959 (complete).

Beza, Theodore

Bible.

Bible in Basic English, 1941 (NT), 1949 (complete).

Bible in Modern English, 1895 (NT), c. 1903 (complete).

Bible in Order, 1975.

Bible Societies.

Biblia hebraica.

Biblical Criticism.

Bilson, Thomas

Bishop Becke's Bible, 1551.

Bishops' Bible, 1568.

Blayney, Benjamin

Blyth, Francis

Bodley, John

Bodmer Papyri.

Bologna, Italy.

Bomberg, Daniel

Bonner, Edmund

Book of Books, 1938.

Book of Revelation, 1957.

Book Order.

Bourke, Myles

Bowyer, Jr, William

Bratcher, Robert Galveston

Breeches Bible, 1560.

Bristow, Richard

British and Foreign Bible Society.

Brooke, Alan England

Browne, E.H.

Bryennios, Philotheos

Byblos, Lebanon.

Byzantine Text.

Byzantium.

Caedmon

Caesarea.

Caesarean Text.

Cairo, Egypt.

Cairo Geniza.

Cambridge, England.

Cambridge Septuagint, 1906–40.

Campbell, Alexander

Campbell, George

Canon.

Carbon 14 Test.

Castlebrae, Scotland.

Catholic Epistles.

Caxton, William

Centenary Translation of the New Testament, 1924.

Chained Bibles.

Chaldee.

Challoner, Richard

Chapter Division.

Charles I

Cheke, John

Chester Beatty Papyri.

Chrysostom.

Church Councils.

Clark, Kenneth Willis

Clarke, Samuel

Clay.

Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Rome

Clermont, France.

Cochlaeus, Johannes

Codex,

Codex Aleppo,

Codex Alexandrinus.

Codex Amiatinus.

Codex Argenteus.

Codex Bezae.

Codex Cairo.

Codex Cantabrigiensis.

Codex Claromontanus.

Codex Ephraemi.

Codex Koridethianus.

Codex Laudianus, 1715.

Codex Leningrad.

Codex Petersburg.

Codex Sinaiticus.

Codex Vaticanus.

Coelfrid

Coggan, Frederick Donald

Colet, John

Colines, Simon de

Cologne, Germany.

Cologne Quarto.

Cologny, Switzerland.

Colophon.

Common Bible, The, 1973.

Common Translation Corrected, 1718–24.

Compilations.

Complete Bible: An American Translation, 1927,1935 (revised), 1938 (Apocrypha), 1939 (complete).

Complutensian Polyglot, 1522.

Concordant Version, 1926.

Confessio Gallicana, 1559.

Conflation.

Confraternity Version, 1941.

Conjectural Emendation.

Constantine I, the Great

Constantinople, Turkey.

Contemporary English Version, 1991 (NT), 1995 (complete).

Contextual Emendation.

Contractions.

Coptic Versions.

Coptos, Egypt.

Cornish, Gerald Warre

Corrections.

Corruptions.

Council of Hippo, 393.

Council of Laodicea, c. 363.

Council of Trent, 1545–63.

Coverdale, Miles

Coverdale's Bible, 1535.

Cranmer, Thomas

Cranmer's Bible, 1539.

Critical Apparatus.

Critical Edition.

Cromwell, Thomas

Cruden, Alexander

Cuneiform.

Cureton, William

Curious Hieroglyphic Bible, 1784.

Cursive.

Cyril of Jerusalem

Daily Study Bible, 1954–57.

Damasus I

Darby, John Nelson

Darby's Translation, 1871–85.

Dead Sea Scrolls.

Defective Reading.

de Lagarde

de Vaux, Roland

Deuteronomy Fragment.

Dissenter.

Dittography.

Divinatio.

Documents of the Christian Church, 1934.

Dodd, Charles Harold

Doddridge, Philip

Douay, France.

Douay-Challoner.

Douay-Rheims Bible, 1582 (NT), 1610 (complete).

Doublets.

Driver, Godfrey Rolles

Driver, Samuel Rolles

Dublin.

Dynamic Equivalence.

Eadfrith

Edinburgh, Scotland.

Edward VI

Egbert

Egerton Papyrus 2.

Egyptian Recension.

El Bahnasa, Egypt.

Elberfeld Bible, 1871.

Elephantine Papyri.

Elizabeth I

Ellicott, Charles John

Elzevir, Louis

Emphasised Bible, 1872 (NT), 1897–1902 (complete).

English, E. Schuyler (1899–1981).

Epiphanius

Erasmus, Desiderius

Ethiopic Version.

Eumenes

Eusebius

Exemplar.

Expanded Translation of the New Testament, 1956–59.

Eynsham, Oxfordshire.

Family 1.

Family 13.

Family Theta.

Fell, John

Fenton, Ferrar

Ferrar, William Hugh

First Vatican Council, 1869–70.

Florence, Italy.

Form Criticism.

Four Gospels, a New Translation, 1933.

Four Gospels, The, 1898.

Four Prophets, The, 1963.

Freer, Charles Lang

Full Reading.

Geddes, Alexander

Genealogical Evidence.

Geneva, Switzerland.

Geneva Bible, 1560.

Geniza.

Georgian Version.

Gesenius, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm

Gezer, Canaan.

Gezer Calendar.

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop

Gideon International.

Glasgow, Scotland.

Glosses.

Good News Bible, 1976.

Goodspeed, Edgar Johnson

Goodspeed's Translation.

Gospel of Thomas.

Gospel of Truth.

Gothic Version.

Göttingen Septuagint, 1931.

Grabbe, John Ernest

Grafton, Richard

Great Bible, 1539.

Greek-English Diglot for the Use of Translators, 1958–64.

Greek Language.

Greek New Testament.

Gregory, Caspar René

Grenfell, Bernard Pyne

Griesbach, Johann Jakob

Gutenberg Bible, 1456.

Guyse, John

Hagiographa.

Hammond, Henry

Hampden-Cook, Ernest

Hampole, Yorkshire.

Hampton Court Conference, 1604.

Haplography.

Harmonization.

Harmony of the Gospels, 1756.

Hart, Andrew

Hartman, Louis Francis

Harvard, USA.

Harwood, Edward

Haupt, Paul

He-Bible, The, 1611.

Hebrew Bible.

Hebrew Language.

Hebrew Scriptures Translated, 1865.

Hebrew University Bible Project.

Hebrew Writing.

Hendry, George Stuart

Henry VIII

Hereford, Nicholas of.

Hermas of Rome

Hesychius

Hieroglyphic Bibles.

Hieronymous.

Higher Criticism.

Hilary of Poitiers

Historical Books.

Holmgren, Laton E.

Holy Bible from Ancient Eastern Manuscripts, 1957.

Holy Bible, Translated from the Corrected Texts of the Originals, 1792–1807.

Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, 1917.

Homoioarcton.

Homoioteleuton.

Hooke, Samuel Henry

Hort, Fenton John Anthony

Hug, Johann Leonard

Humphrey, William Gilson

Hunkin, Joseph Wellington

Hunt, Arthur Surridge

Ignatius of Antioch

Immersion Versions.

Ink.

International Bible Society.

International Children's Bible, 1983 (NT), 1986 (complete).

Interpolations.

Intrinsic Probability.

Irenaeus

Istanbul, Turkey.

Itacisms.

Jabal Abu Mana, Egypt.

James I

Jamnia, Synod of.

Jarrow, Tyne and Wear.

Jeremiah Fragment.

Jerome

Jerusalem Bible, 1966.

Jerusalem, Israel.

Jewish Publication Society Bible, 1917.

Jewish School and Family Bible, 1861.

Johannine Corpus.

John Chrysostom

John Fragment.

Jones, Alexander

Josephus

Joye, George

Judaean and Authorized Version of the New Testament, 1969.

Justin Martyr

Kahle, Paul Ernest

Kenrick, Francis Patrick

Kethih

Kibworth, Leicestershire.

Kilpatrick, George Gordon Dinwiddie

King James Version.

Kittel, Rudolf

Knox, Ronald

Knox's Bible, 1945 (NT), 1949 (OT), 1954 (complete).

Koiné

Koridethi.

Lachish Letters.

Lachmann, Karl Konrad Friedrich Wilhelm

‘Ladies of Castlebrae, The'.

Lagrange, Marie Joseph

Lamsa's Translation, 1940–57.

Langton, Stephen

Languages.

Latin Versions.

Lattey, Cuthbert Charles

Law, The.

Lawrence, Giles

Lectio brevior.

Lectio defectiva.

Lectio difficilior.

Lectio plene.

Leeser, Isaac

Leicester, England.

Leiden, Netherlands.

Leipzig, Germany.

Letters of St Paul, 1901.

Letters to Young Churches, 1947.

Leviticus Scroll.

Lewis, Agnes Smith

Lewis, Clive Staples

Libby, Willard Frank

Liberal Translation of the New Testament, 1768.

Lietzmann, Hans

Lindisfarne Gospels.

Lingard's Gospels, 1836.

Linguistic Emendation.

Literal Translation of the Bible, 1862.

Living Bible, 1971.

Lollards.

London, England.

London Polyglot, 1657–69.

Longman, Michael

Lower Criticism.

Lowth, Robert

Lucianic Text.

Luther's German New Testament, 1552.

Lutterworth, Leicestershire.

Mace, Daniel

MacKnight, James

Mainz, Germany.

Manchester, England.

Manuscript.

Marcion

Mari Tablets.

Martin, Gregory

Martini, Carlo Maria

Mary I

Masorah.

Masoretes, The.

Masoretic Text.

Matres lectionis.

Matthaei, C.F.

Matthew's Bible, 1537.

Mazarin Bible, 1456.

McHardy, WD.

McLean, Norman

Meek, Theophile James

Melito of Sardis

Mesropius

Message: The New Testament in Contemporary Language, The, 1993.

Metathesis.

Metrical Emendation.

Metzger, Bruce Manning (1914—).

Midrash.

Milan, Italy.

Mill, John

Minuscule.

Mishnah.

Moabite Stone.

Moberly, George

Modern Language Bible, 1969.

Modern Reader's Bible, 1896.

Moffatt, James

Montgomery, Helen Maria Barrett

More, Thomas

Muratori, Ludovici Antonio

Muratorian Fragment or Canon.

Murderer's Bible, 1795.

Nag Hammadi, Egypt.

Nary's New Testament, 1719.

Nash Papyrus.

Nestle-Aland Text.

Neutral Text.

New American Bible, 1970.

New American Standard Bible, 1963 (NT), 1971 (complete).

New American Standard Bible Update, 1995.

New Century Version, 1991.

New Chain Reference Bible, 1964.

New English Bible, 1961 (NT), 1970 (complete).

New International Reader's Version, 1995.

New International Version, 1973 (NT), 1978 (complete).

New Jewish Version, 1962–81.

New King James Version, 1982–83.

New Living Translation, 1996.

New Revised Standard Version, 1990.

New Scofield Reference Bible, 1967.

New Testament.

New Testament: A New Translation in Plain English, 1952.

New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People, 1937.

New Testament according to the Eastern Text, 1940.

New Testament: An American Translation, 1923.

New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version, 1995.

New Testament in Greek and English… corrected from the Authority of the most Authentic Manuscripts, 1729.

New Testament in Modern English, 1958.

New Testament in Modern Speech, 1903.

New Testament Letters, prefaced and paraphrased, 1943.

New Testament, translated from the Greek of J.J. Griesbach, 1840.

New Translation of The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, 1963.

New World Translations of the Scriptures, 1950–60.

New York Bible Society.

Newcome, William

Newman, Barclay Moon, Jr (1931—).

Nomina sacra.

Nicholas of Hereford

Nida, Eugene Albert

Norlie, Olaf Morgan

Norton, Andrews

Ogden, Charles Kay

Old Cairo, Egypt.

Old Latin.

Old Syriac.

Old Testament.

Old Testament: An American Translation, 1927.

Omissions.

Onkelos Targum.

Oral Tradition.

Origen's Hexaplar.

Orlinsky, Harry Meyer

Ormulum.

Ostraca.

Oxford, England.

Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

Packington, Augustine.

Palaeography.

Palimpsest.

Palmer, Edward.

Palmer, Edwin H.

Panopolos, Egypt.

Papias

Papyrus.

Parablepsis.

Paragraphing.

Parallel Texts.

Paraphrase.

Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament, 1703.

Paraphrase on the Epistles of St Paul, 1675.

Parashiyyot.

Parchment.

Paris, France.

Paris Polyglot, 1629–45.

Paris Psalter, 871–901.

Parker, Matthew

Pau Bible, 1871.

Pauline Corpus.

Pen.

Penguin Translations, 1952.

Pentateuch.

Pergamon, Asia Minor.

Pericope.

Peshitta.

Phillips, John Bertram

Pisqa'ot.

Pius XII

Plain English New Testament, 1952.

Polycarp

Polychrome Bible, 1893.

Polyglot Bibles.

Porter, John

Pratensis, Felix

Pre-Samaritan Texts.

Price, Thomas

Primitive New Testament, 1745.

Prindele, William.

Printing.

Prophets, The.

Proto-Masoretic Text.

Pseudepigrapha.

Puncta extraordinaria.

Purvey, John

Pyle, Thomas

Q

Qere.

Qift, Egypt.

Quentel, Peter.

Qumran, Israel.

Rabbinic Bibles.

Rabbula

Radio Carbon Dating.

Rahlfs, A.

Ras Shamra Tablets.

Received Text.

Recension.

Redaction Criticism.

Revised Authorized Version, 1982.

Revised English Bible, 1989.

Revised Standard Version, 1946 (NT), 1952 (OT), 1957 (complete).

Reynolds, John

Rheims-Challoner.

Rheims, France.

Rich, Jeremiah

Rieu, Chares Pierre Henri H.

Rieu, Emil Victor

Riverside New Testament, 1901, revised 1934.

Roberts, Colin Henderson

Robertson, James Alexander

Robinson, Theodore Henry

Roll.

Rolle, Richard

Roman Catholic Canon Law.

Rotherham, Joseph Bryant

Rufinus, Tyrannius

Rushworth Gospels.

Ruthwell Cross.

Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments, 1893.

Sahug

Samaritan Pentateuch.

Samaritan Recension.

Samariticon.

Scarlett, Nathaniel

SchafF, Philip

Scheil, John Vincent

Scholz, Johann Maretin Augustine

Schonfield, Hugh Joseph

Scofield Reference Bible, 1909.

Scribal Changes.

Scriptio continua.

Scriptio defectiva.

Scriptio plene.

Scripture Gift Mission.

Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Scroll.

Second Vatican Council, 1962–65.

Semitic Languages.

Semler, Johann Salomo

Septuagint (LXX).

Sharpe, Samuel

Shaxton, Nicolas

Sheed, Frank

Shorthand Bibles, 1605 and 1904.

Siloam Inscription.

Silver Codex.

Similar Letters.

Similar Sounds.

Simonides, Constantine

Simplified New Testament, 1961.

Slavonic Version.

Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

Smith, John Merlin Powis

Smith, Julia Evelina

Smith, Miles

Soden, Hermann Freiherr von

Soldiers' Pocket Bible, 1643.

Solway Firth, Scotland.

Soncino Edition, 1494.

Sopherim.

Source Criticism.

Souter, Alexander

Souter Text.

Southwark, London.

Spencer, Francis Aloysius

Sperry, Willard Leonyd

Spurrell Translation, 1885.

St Catharine's Monastery, Mount Sinai.

St Mark for Children, 1951.

St Paul from the Trenches, 1937.

St Paul's Cross, London.

St Petersburg, Russia.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Stephanus, Robert

Strasbourg, France.

Streeter, Bernett Hillman

Stuttgart, Germany.

Swete, Henry Barclay

Symmachus

Synoptic Gospels.

Syriac Version.