Where was the 1611 Bible first discovered?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

it was not dicovered. the 1611 Bible also called the authorized text was created. the first actual Bible was devoloped by the council of Nicia. sometime around the year 496. the names and dates may not be exact but it was during the time of the Byzantine empire.
it was created because emporer Consantine wanted a book that contained God's word. the council gathered every text that had anything to do with God and Jesus. there were thousands of texts. each was examined and researched and examined again. after a rather long time they compiled a Bible that contained aproximately 66 books. it was organized into two parts. one written in hebrew and another in greek. later it was all translated into latin and orgainzed into the 66 seperate books. it was then further organized into chapters and so on.
in 1611 King James authorized the translation of that into english. he did it more to tick of the pope than any other reason. there were 7 groups formed, the numbers varied but they were all scolars. some spoke greek others spoke hebrew and most spoke latin as well as english.
each group took the latin Bible as well as the original hebrew and greek bible. they did not reaserch nor examine any other texts as did the Byzantine council. they took what was already established and they translated it into english. later more texts were found and it was decided to revise and expand the Bible to include the new material.
an action that was not favored by many. another unfavored action was the translation into "modern" english which changed the meaning of some of the words.
i hope this answers your question. as i said some of the dates might be a little off but it happened around that time period

Answer 3

Look at the forward in the front of the ook. King James commissioned a bunch of scholars of a variety of different theological persuasions to study the original manuscripts that were available in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic and agree on the closest English translation they could come up with at the time. Much of what ended up in the book was actually Tyndale's Bible, which he had been martyred for producing. What makes the 1611 version so special is that

1) like Shakespeare, it's poetic but also we can still figure out what it means when we try

2) it doesn't have a particular theological ax to grind (less spin, no royalties)

3) no economic goals (the scholars were commissioned by the king for working on it, not depending on the book sales for their living)

4) it has honorable origins All modern translations come from source documents politically manipulated by two men. They present different teaching and hide important things for our time.

Answer 4

The King James authorized translation of the Bible was completed in 1611; that's why there are words such as "ye" and "shew" in it. It relied upon existing Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek translations; it was not "discovered" already translated into English.

Peace.

Answer 5

It wasn't discovered. It was a translation commissioned by King James in 1611.

Answer 6

The first book of the Bible, was completed in 1513 B.C. Did you know that, after Genesis was written, some 2,900 years passed before the complete Bible was translated into English? And over 200 more years elapsed before translation of the King James Version was completed (1611 C.E.).

Old Bibles and Manuscripts


It is difficult to imagine that anybody would attempt to throw away the Codex Sinaiticus, a Greek Bible manuscript written about the fourth century C.E. Yet, when the German biblical scholar Tischendorf visited the Greek monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai in 1859, he found 43 sheets of this magnificent volume in a wastepaper basket.

At one time, the Codex Alexandrinus was in the library of the Patriarch of Alexandria. This vellum manuscript was presented to King Charles I of England in 1627. It dates from the first half of the fifth century C.E.

Look carefully at the Hebrew Pentateuch, a manuscript of the 10th century. In several places, you will see the Divine Name, the Tetragrammaton ????. Compare this with the beautifully written Wycliffe Bible of 1380 to 1384—the first complete handwritten Bible in the English language. Both are such fine examples of exquisite penmanship! The bold printing of the Gutenberg, or 42-line Bible, believed to be the first substantial book ever printed from movable type, stands out in clear contrast.

The word “polyglot” comes from Greek and means “many tongues.” Two outstanding Polyglot Bibles are displayed. One is the Complutensian Bible of the early 16th century, giving the text in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin. And the other was completed by Christophe Plantin in 1571, with the text in the same four languages, as well as in Syriac. About 1,200 copies of this Bible were printed, 13 of them on vellum, as was this copy.

In one display case, four famous translations are seen together. Here we find Martin Luther’s New Testament, a popular German rendering of 1522 that formed the basis for William Tyndale’s New Testament of 1525. The Geneva Bible was prepared for private reading and study by a group of English and Scottish Protestant refugees living at Geneva in 1557.

A visit to the BRITISH MUSEUM is always worth while. Many of its exhibits are unique.

Answer 7

It wasn't discovered, it has been passed down. Although it was translated from the Latin Vulgate, so it is a translation of a translation. I am sure they used Greek and Hebrew, too, but it was a politically motivated translation, and that makes me wary of the KJV.

It is best to look up Scripture in several translations.

Answer 8

It was translated from Greek and Hebrew texts.