History of Bibles
382 AD:Jerome's Latin Vulgate Manuscripts Produced which contain All 80 Books (39 Old Test. + 14 Apocrypha + 27 New Test).
600 AD:LATIN.
995 AD:Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language) Translations of The New Testament Produced.
1384 AD:Wycliffe is the First Person to Produce a (Hand-Written) manuscript Copy of the Complete Bible; All 80 Books.
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•[Wycliff (1380): "for god loued so the world; that he gaf his oon bigetun sone, that eche man that bileueth in him perisch not: but haue euerlastynge liif,"]
1455 AD:Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press; Books May Now be mass-Produced Instead of Individually Hand-Written. The First Book Ever Printed is Gutenberg's Bible in Latin.
1516 AD:Erasmus Produces a Greek/Latin Parallel New Testament.
1522 AD:Martin Luther's German New Testament.
1526 AD:William Tyndale's New Testament; The First New Testament printed in the English Language.
1535 AD:Myles Coverdale's Bible; The First Complete Bible printed in the English Language (80 Books: O.T. & N.T. & Apocrypha).
1537 AD:Tyndale-Matthews Bible; The Second Complete Bible printed in English. Done by John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers (80 Books).
1539 AD:The "Great Bible" Printed; The First English Language Bible Authorized for Public Use (80 Books).
1560 AD:The Geneva Bible Printed; The First English Language Bible to add Numbered Verses to Each Chapter (80 Books).
1568 AD:The Bishops Bible Printed; The Bible of which the King James was a Revision (80 Books).
1609 AD:The Douay Old Testament is added to the Rheims New Testament (of 1582) Making the First Complete English Catholic Bible; Translated from the Latin Vulgate (80 Books).
1611 AD:The King James Bible Printed; with All 80 Books, corrected many times until 1769. Current printings (2013) are identical with the 1769 version.
1782 AD:Robert Aitken's Bible; The First English Language Bible (KJV) Printed in America.
1791 AD:Isaac Collins and Isaiah Thomas Respectively Produce the First Family Bible and First Illustrated Bible Printed in America. Both were King James Versions, with All 80 Books.
1808 AD:Jane Aitken's Bible (Daughter of Robert Aitken); The First Bible to be Printed by a Woman.
1833 AD:Noah Webster's Bible; After Producing his Famous Dictionary, Webster Printed his Own Revision of the King James Bible.
1841 AD:English Hexapla New Testament; an Early Textual Comparison showing the Greek and 6 Famous English Translations in Parallel Columns.
1846 AD:The Illuminated Bible; The Most Lavishly Illustrated Bible printed in America. A King James Version, with All 80 Books.
All these older Bibles agreed in theology.
From then on the Bible was re-written for Profit. The change in theology.
has resulted from a British and American collaboration which began in 1850, after the re-translation of Vaticanus by an English Bishop and his Cambridge associate.
1885 AD:The "English Revised Version" Bible; The First Major English Revision of the KJV.
1901 AD:The "American Standard Version"; The First Major American Revision of the KJV.
1971 AD:The "New American Standard Bible" (NASB) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Word for Word English Translation" of the Bible.
1973 AD:The "New International Version" (NIV) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Phrase for Phrase English Translation" of the Bible.
1982 AD:The "New King James Version" (NKJV) is Published as a "Modern English Version Maintaining the Original Style of the King James."
2002 AD:The English Standard Version (ESV) is Published as a translation to bridge the gap between the accuracy of the NASB and the readability of the NIV.
Up until the turn of the 20th. cent. the Holy Bible was a sacred book, which had been watched over by the Bishops of the Church, and no changes allowed, apart from the correction of printers errors. Between 382 AD and 1850, all Bibles agreed on theology. After that only the Anglican, Catholic, and Orthodox Bibles agreed (to this day.) The Protestant Bibles were all changed to a new theology.
In 1848 a 5th. cent. Greek Bible was discovered in the Vatican library, a copy finally got into the hands of American publishers after it had been converted into modern Greek by a pair of British scholars at Cambridge University. The publisher funded a translation from their work (now the NA-UB Greek) into American English.
One of the effects of these new Bible translations is that the main-line Protestant religions have begun to lose the basis of their faith. People no longer know what is true.
Of the 80 million in the Anglican Communion world wide, most have rejected these new books. Only the remnants of the C of E, and the remnants of the once great Episcopal church have switched to the new books.
In the Roman Catholic Church only some American churches have adopted revised Bibles (mostly RSV for Catholics.) The balance of the 1.2 Billion RC members are still listening to traditional texts.
The Vatican, while recognizing that some of the newer translations have merit continue to rely upon the traditional Vulgate Bible in Latin because it has been tried and proven over 1600 years.
Lay people in America have, by and large, abandoned corrupt Bibles and they are no longer in the popular bookstores - the RV, RSV, ASV,, have all gone. The NIV is the last modern translation that has substantial market share.
The KJV is always available.