What was the bible called before KJV came out?

Question

What was the bible before the King James ....

I want to get the bible before the KJV came out

I already Know it was the Holy Bible before someone corrected me...

Answer 1

Try the "original bible." I mean before anyone come out with their version, you have to have the original, right?

Answer 2

Before the King James Version The Bible was referred to as the Word of God, The Bible, The Hoy Bible, The book or The Holy Book.

Except for the Word of God here is why it was referred to as the other titles that involved "Bible" or "Book"
Bible is a transliteration from the Greek meaning book so the Bible was referred to as The Bible, The Holy Bible, The Book or The Holy Book when not being referred to by the name of a translation.


Besides the Bishop's Bible there were the Geneva Bible, Wycliffe Bible, and the Tyndale Bible.
I do not remember the order they came out in.
Those are the English translations.
Of course as mentioned their was the German Bible.

Latin was at one time a spoken language and that was probably one of or the first non-Hebrew non-Greek versions.
Latin actually for a short time replaced Greek as the common world language of the Roman empire before Latin dialects developed in Europe with so many differences that each country ended up having their own language.
At that point, and once only the scholars and priests remembered how to read and write the Latin then people could not study the Bible for themselves. Thatt is one reason some historians refer to that period of history as the "Dark Ages".

What we Christians call the Old Testament, I think the Jews call the Torah. They also called it "Moses and the Prophets".
It was originally written and read in Hebrew ( I think some parts in Aramaic) then the next translation was in Greek for Jews not in Israel who forgot Hebrew and it was called the Septuagint.
That has something to do with possibly 70 Hebrew scholars approving of the Greek version for Hellenized Jews.
This was at least a few hundred years before Jesus was born so the Bible is an ancient historical document. as well as the Word of God for Jews and Christians..
Even the New Testament (the rest of the Word of God) was completed before the Apostle John died. So the New Testament of the Holy Bible is almost as old as the Septuagint of the Old Testament.

By the way, there is more historical and manuscript proof for The Holy Bible's records then for many historical incidents that historians accept as fact in secular history.

Answer 3

The ordinary Bible read in the Church before the King James was commonly called the Bishops Bible.
But the Douai version, instigated by Gregory Martin, and later the Genevan version was the ones ordinary used at that time.
It was the work of English scholars connected with the University of Douai that started The New Testament, that was issued at Rheims in 1582, and the whole Bible in 1609, just before our King James version.
The King James Version of the Bible, was first published in 1611.
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Answer 4

LOL, um the bible in its oldest form would be the individual manuscripts. Any writings before the King james would be best found in the German language. If you want Originals be prepared to pay alot of money. Every bible is the same only with variations in translation.

Answer 5

If memory serves me right, I think the Authorized KJV [English translation] came out almost simultaneously with the German translation, courtesy of Martin Luther in the 15th-16th century AD.

Both of them were translated from the Latin Vulgate --of course, written in lingua franca of the Vatican, or in Latin. That would be quite a trick to read, understand and interpret unless you've had Classical Latin for at least fourteen years or so.

[I gave up after four years of Latin and can't even translate "Quo usque tandem abutere..." anymore. LOL.]

Prior to that, the Holy Bible would have been in Greek format as translated by the Septuagint [seventy scholars of the RCC] from their original Hebraic and Aramaic sources.

Good luck!

Answer 6

hi...nicely of course Jesus became referred to as lord and god...yet He became decrease case lord in different bibles interior the hot Testment yet see The King James version Has puzzled such a number of human beings by ability of making Lord Cap length so... with the aid of fact of this such a number of human beings have self belief interior the Trinity while Trinity isn't even interior the bible.. and As Jesus is being God he's be responsive to with the aid of fact the Begotten god advise the Begotten Son... bear in mind Lord is basically a tittle that is like say Sir So bear in mind which you Jesus has a father and his call is Jehovah and he's LORD!!!! and he created each thing with the aid of his Son who's lord and his call is Jesus

Answer 7

who gives a rat's rear end? I am too sexy for this question anyway.

Answer 8

i dont know