The English Bible: A History of Translations

by F. F. Bruce

  • Year 1961
  • Type Book
  • Genre history
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For general readers wanting the history of the English Bible from Old English to the twentieth century; not a technical study.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

A history of the English Bible from the earliest versions to the twentieth-century translations (1961; revised 1970 and 1978).

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 0 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 5 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A history of English translations of the Bible, published by Lutterworth Press and Oxford University Press in 1961 (Methuen paperback 1963), with a new and revised edition in 1970 that extended the story to the New English Bible, and a third edition in 1978 retitled History of the Bible in English. It runs from the Old English versions through Wycliffe, Tyndale and the King James Version to the modern translations of his own day, several of which he knew from the inside.

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