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John Wycliffe · 1378 · Treatise
Written in 1378 during Wycliffe's tenure as a master at Oxford, this Latin treatise emerged from the intensifying conflicts between papal authority and emerging conciliar movements in the late fourteenth century. Wycliffe…
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John Wycliffe · 1380 · Treatise
John Wycliffe's treatise on the Eucharist emerged from his deepening theological confrontation with what he saw as the institutional corruptions of the late medieval Church. Written in 1380, the work represents Wycliffe's…
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John Wycliffe · 1380–1400 · Treatise
The Poor Caitiff stands as one of the most widely circulated devotional treatises of late medieval England, though its attribution to John Wycliffe remains disputed among scholars. This compilation of spiritual instruction…
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Tyndale Bible Tyndale New Testament and Old Testament Portions
William Tyndale · 1525 · Scripture
William Tyndale's translation stands as a foundational source for the later English Bible, and much of his wording survives in the King James Version and beyond. In scope it comprises the complete…
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William Tyndale · 1528 · Book
William Tyndale's treatise emerged from the urgent need to defend Protestant principles against accusations that evangelical teaching bred civil disobedience and political rebellion. Writing in 1528 while in exile, Tyndale faced charges…
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Miles Coverdale · 1535 · Scripture
The Coverdale Bible, the work of Miles Coverdale and printed in 1535, was the first complete printed Bible in English. Its scope is the whole Bible, but it was not drawn from…
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John Rogers ('Thomas Matthew'), using Tyndale and Coverdale · 1537 · Scripture
The Matthew Bible, published in 1537 and generally attributed to John Rogers under the name "Thomas Matthew," was the first complete English Bible to draw on Tyndale's translations on a large scale…
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Richard Taverner · 1539 · Scripture
Taverner's Bible, the work of the English scholar Richard Taverner, was a learned but relatively short-lived revision of Matthew's Bible, published in 1539. Covering the complete Bible, it was drawn from Greek…
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Bear Bible Reina Bible / Biblia del Oso
Casiodoro de Reina · 1569 · Scripture
The Reina Bible, commonly called the Biblia del Oso, is a foundational Spanish Protestant Bible, produced by Casiodoro de Reina and published in 1569. Rather than adapting an existing version, it offered…
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Cipriano de Valera revising Casiodoro de Reina · 1602 · Scripture
The Reina-Valera Revision established the enduring Reina-Valera family of Spanish Protestant translations, and stands as one of the foundational texts of Protestant Bible reading in the Spanish language. A complete Protestant Bible…
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John Bunyan · 1678 · Book
John Bunyan's allegorical masterpiece emerged from his twelve years of imprisonment in Bedford jail for unlicensed preaching. Writing in the plain style of popular literature rather than learned theology, the dissenting minister…
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Daniel Mace · 1729 · Scripture
The Mace New Testament stands among the earliest English New Testaments to make substantial independent use of textual criticism after the King James Version. Associated with Daniel Mace and belonging to the…
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George Whitefield · 1740 · Sermon
George Whitefield's Selected Sermons captures the theological core of the most prominent preacher of the eighteenth-century evangelical revival. These sermons emerged from Whitefield's itinerant ministry across Britain and colonial America, where his…
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John Worsley · 1770 · Scripture
The Worsley New Testament is an independent English rendering of the New Testament dating from the late eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, and it draws on Greek…
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George Campbell · 1789 · Scripture
An influential scholarly translation of the four Gospels, issued together with extensive critical dissertations. It works directly from the Greek, taking the Greek Gospels as its base text, and is classed as…
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Charles Thomson · 1808 · Scripture
The Thomson Bible holds the distinction of being the first English translation of the Septuagint to appear as part of a complete Bible, and it stands as one of the earliest major…
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Alexander Greaves · 1828 · Scripture
The Greaves New Testament is an independent nineteenth-century English rendering of the New Testament, one of the many efforts that made up the expanding movement of translation work following the King James…
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Noah Webster · 1833 · Scripture
The Webster Bible is an early modernization of the complete Bible in King James English, prepared by Noah Webster, America's leading lexicographer and the compiler of its first major dictionary. Covering the…
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Leicester Ambrose Sawyer · 1858 · Scripture
The Sawyer New Testament is an independent American translation of the New Testament, undertaken with the aim of contemporary intelligibility and critical accuracy. It covers the New Testament alone, rendered from Greek…
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Herman Heinfetter (Frederick Parker) · 1863 · Scripture
An early English translation deliberately founded on the Vatican manuscript rather than the Textus Receptus, the printed Greek text that had underpinned the Authorised Version and most English Bibles before it. Its…
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Robert Young · 1863 · Scripture
Young's Literal Translation is one of the best-known highly literal English renderings of the Bible, the work of the Scottish scholar Robert Young, better known to many readers as the compiler of…
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New Testament Samuel Davidson New Testament
Samuel Davidson · 1875 · Scripture
The Samuel Davidson New Testament stands as a representative radical-critical English New Testament of the late nineteenth century, a period in which advances in the study of Greek manuscripts were reshaping English-language…
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Julia Evelina Smith · 1876 · Scripture
The Julia E. Smith Parker Bible holds the distinction of being the first complete English Bible translated by a woman working independently from the original languages. Covering the whole of scripture, it…
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Leicester Ambrose Sawyer · 1891 · Scripture
A late revision of Leonard Sawyer's independent New Testament, this version covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and taking the Greek New Testament as its base text. Its approach may…
