Bear Bible

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 a fresh translation of the complete Protestant Bible made from the original languages, Hebrew and Greek: its base text consists of the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament, drawing on the scholarship of the Reformation era. Its guiding philosophy is that of an original-language Protestant translation, in keeping with the wider sixteenth-century movement to render scripture into the vernacular from the original tongues. It is popularly known as the 'Bear Bible,' a name taken from the printer's emblem of a bear reaching into a honey tree that appears on its title page. Later revised by Cipriano de Valera, it became the basis of the Reina-Valera tradition, long the standard Bible of Spanish-speaking Protestantism.