Few stories are as amazing and as touching as the story of how we got the Bible. This stunning pamphlet tells of the faithfulness and sacrifice by courageous Christians to bring the Bible to people in their own common language. This How We Got the Bible booklet is perfect for Bible studies, Sunday school classes, and church small groups.
How We Got the Bible Answers the Questions—
- Who wrote the Bible
- When was it written
- Where was it written
- How can we know it is reliable
- How We Got the Bible Covers the Main Events in the History of the Bible
- The History of the Bible: 1500 BC to AD 1455 — From Moses to Gutenberg's Printing Press
- From God's command to Moses to write on tablets
- The Dead Sea Scrolls confirm the reliability of the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures)
- The Earliest Hand-Made Copies of the Bible
- Jerome's translation into Latin: The Vulgate
- The Masoretes, Jewish Scribes and their System to Ensure Accuracy
- The first Bibles printed on Gutenberg's revolutionary printing press
- The History of the Bible: From Martin Luther and William Tyndale to Modern Bibles and Bible Translations
- Luther, Tyndale, and other scholars publish the Bible in local languages of common people.
- People who sacrificed their lives to print and distribute the Bible in English
- English Bibles Develop:The Wycliffe Bible, Coverdale Bible, Matthew's Bible, The Great Bible (also called the Chained Bible), and the King James Version.
- Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which confirm the reliability of Scripture.
- Discovery of several very ancient Bibles which were hand-copied within 350 years after Christ's resurrection. These confirm the remarkable accuracy of the copyists.
- Modern Bible translations we have today.
- Featured in How We Got the Bible Timeline
- 10 Basics Everyone Should Know about the Bible
- Stories of key people, including William Tyndale, John Wycliffe, Erasmus, and Johann Gutenberg
- Timeline and explanation of how we got the Bible in English
- Pictures of ancient writing materials such as tablets, skins, and papyrus
- Methods used by ancient Masoretic scribes to hand copy each Bible accurately
- Shows the history of Bible versions such as the Wycliffe Bible, the Geneva Bible, and the King James Version, in addition to today's modern Bible translations.
How We Got the Bible Pamphlet includes the inspiring stories of early translators who gave their lives to translate and print the Bible in English. Size: 8.5"x 5.5" unfolds to 33" long."
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