When was the Bible first written and by whom?
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When was the Bible first written and by whom?
The Bible as library The Old Testament is the original Hebrew Bible, the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith, written at different times between about 1200 and 165 BC. The New Testament books were written by Christians in the first century AD.
How many times has the Bible been transcribed?
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. As of September 2020 the full Bible has been translated into 704 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,551 languages and Bible portions or stories into 1,160 other languages.
What is wrong with the RSV Bible?
The RSV translation team felt that it was necessary to preserve the integrity of the Hebrew text without layering Christian theology onto it and went with the “young woman” definition. Fundamentalists regarded this translation as heretical.
What does NRSV stand for?
New Revised Standard Version
| New Revised Standard Version | |
|---|---|
| Full name | New Revised Standard Version |
| Abbreviation | NRSV |
| Complete Bible published | 1989 |
How many versions of the King James Bible are there?
Eventually five different editions of the King James Version were produced in 1611,1629, 1638, 1762, and 1769. It is the 1769 edition which is most commonly cited as the King James Version (KJV).
What text is the RSV translated from?
| Revised Standard Version | |
|---|---|
| Textual basis | OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with limited Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint influence Apocrypha: Septuagint with Vulgate influence NT: Novum Testamentum Graece |
| Translation type | Formal equivalence |
| Reading level | Middle school |
| Version revision | 1971 |
What is the difference between the RSV and the NRSV?
The RSV observed the older convention of using masculine nouns in a gender-neutral sense (e.g. “man” instead of “person”), and in some cases used a masculine word where the source language used a neutral word. The NRSV by contrast adopted a policy of inclusiveness in gender language.
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