When was the first Bible published and where?

Question

was it different much than the King James version?

how do people know the translation is correct or the same , say in German and English?

Answer 1

Exactly, Religion is just a scam

Answer 2

If you mean the first printed Bible, it is the Gutenburg Bible of 1450-1456. We know for certain about this first printed Bible from a letter of 12 March 1455.
It was different from the KJV being the text of Jerome's Latin Vulgate. The KJV, of course, is in English, of that period.
However, the KJV (1611) is an English translation based on the so-called Textus Receptus (Received Text) which is based on a number of readings at that time (from Greek manuscripts, Vulgate, Erasmus' translation into Greek, etc.)
If you are asking when was the complete (Old & New Testaments, NT, OT) Bible first 'published' (compiled), we do not have the answer. We have a number of very early fragments of the NT, and the Dead Sea Scrolls have given us some old OT texts, and there are many early codices (books), but the exact date is buried in history.
The study of the texts of the Bible is a demanding and exacting one, consisting of palaeography, philology, ancient languages, textual criticism, etc. Nowadays, Bible translators have to be highly skilled in many of these areas before they are asked to join any translation team. Most of the time they are reknown Bible scholars. Fortunately, the text that we have of the Bible is based on abundant manuscripts and those who know the language can go to the original languages (Hebrew/Aramaic or Koine Greek or even Coptic or Syraic) and check for themselves the accuracy of the translations. In fact there are more manuscripts for the Bible, than for say, Caesar's Wars, or most other religious texts. Yet people often think that it is abitrarily made up!
Read them yourself (English and German, or even the in the original Greek and Hebrew) and judge for yourself

Answer 3

Pope Damasus I assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Council of Rome in 382 A.D. He commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin. This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official Bible.

Answer 4

Go to wikipedia.com and search Bibles

The Septuagint - Koine Greek version of the Old Testament translated in stages between the 3rd to 1st century BC in Alexandria. It is the oldest of several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek.


The Vulgate Bible is an early 5th century version of the Bible in Latin, partly revised and partly translated by Jerome on the orders of Pope Damasus I in 382.

It has been theorized that canonical status of some books of the Hebrew Bible was still being discussed between 200 BC and 100 AD, and that it had yet to reach definitive form.

Also read about:

Council of Trent (1545-1563)

Divino Afflante Spiritu

Catholic translations of the Bible are based directly on the texts found in manuscripts in the original languages, taking into account also the ancient translations that sometimes clarify what seem to be transcription errors in those manuscripts, although the Latin Vulgate remains the official Bible of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.


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One cannot have God for his Father, who will not have the Church for his Mother, and likewise, one cannot have the Word of God for his faith who will not have the Church for his teacher. It is the infallible teaching authority of the Church, as promised by Christ, which alone preserves God's Word from erroneous interpretation.

Christ did not say, "Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself." If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, but a Babylon and confusion instead, and never one Church, the union of one body. Hence, Christ never said to His Apostles, "Go and write Bibles and distribute them, and let everyone judge for himself." That injunction was reserved for the Sixteenth Century, and we have seen the result of it. Ever since the Sixteenth Century there have been springing up religion upon religion, and churches upon churches, all fighting and quarreling with one another, and all because of the private interpretation of the Bible.

Answer 5

First printed new testiment in English was by William Tyndale. The church does like people to think for themselves and this version gave people the chance to read the bible and decide for themselves, instead of the Latin version that had been read to followers and explained the way the church wanted. For his troubles William Tyndale was strangled before being burnt at the stake. As a decedant of his I have steered clear of all religious mumbo jumbo.

Answer 6

March 22, 1457 • Date Commonly Offered for Johann Gutenberg's First Bible (but its not exact for many reason but i cant be bothered to write or paste an essay) and it was in Latin as that was the language of the church. As for the translation it probably is not all the same and as it was done so many years after the so called thing happened..... do you really think they would be correct after years of chinese whispers?

Answer 7

gutenberg did the first printed bible..and it wasnt in latin... which caused a right stink.

the KJ2nd bible is essentially the one everyone uses... and although there are duifferences, youve got to be the bishop to know, and realise.

and you contention that the scribes were less than accurate, well i for one agree wholeheartedly... who checked for teh translations from arabic hebrew into latin, and then into english... and the church has the audacity to say oh no the bible hasnt been edited... of course it has...

Answer 8

I think in 1560 and it became known as the Geneva Bible and published in the United States.

Answer 9

difficult to say when it was first public. but if u able to get it somehow u will be astonised to compear with modern bible.

Answer 10

hope this website is useful to you

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/