A one question quiz...?

Question

What language was the Bible first published in?

OK, I'm cutting this off. I posted it in the religion section to make a point. Out of the first 14, only one person had it right. The Guttenberg was the first published edition, and it was in Latin, so hodgie was correct.

I did this to make a point: that people who go on about their religion, and seem to think they know about their religion, very often don't know much about it.

Someone once asked Jerry Falwell what language Jesus spokme and he said, "I don't know... English I guess."

In my experience agnostics and atheists are often much better educated about this famous book than people who make it the signpost for their existence.

c.f.: What DID Jesus say about the Pharisees? And who were they?

Answer 1

Latin

Answer 2

the original language of the Old Testament was classical Hebrew -
the original language of the New Testament was Greek

Bible: What was the original language?
The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew, and the New Testament was written in Greek.

HISTORY OF TRANSLATIONS

The first translation of the English Bible was initiated by John Wycliffe and completed by John Purvey in 1388.

A few chapters of the books Ezra (ch. 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26) and Daniel (ch. 2:4 to 7:28), one verse in Jeremiah (ch. 10:11, and a word in Genesis (ch. 31:47) are written, not in ancient Hebrew, but in Aramaic. Aramaic is about as closely related to Hebrew as Spanish is to Portuguese. However, the differences between Aramaic and Hebrew are not those of dialect, and the two are regarded as two separate languages.

From which language was the KJV was translated. Here is how it came about: 54 college professors, preachers, deans and bishops ranging in ages from 27 to 73 were engaged in the project of translating the KJV. To work on their masterpiece, these men were divided into six panels: two at Oxford, two at Cambridge, two at Westminster. Each panel concentrated on one portion of the Bible, and each scholar in the panel was assigned portions to translate. As guides the scholars used a Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, a Greek text for the New. Some Aramaic was used in each. They consulted translations in Chaldean, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. And, of course, they used earlier English Bibles—at least six, including William Tyndale's New Testament, the first to be printed in English. So what language did they use? Everything that was available.

The first American edition of the Bible was probably published some time before 1752.

The Bible has been translated in part or in whole as of 1964 in over 1,200 different languages or dialects.

Answer 3

It was copied for hundreds of years in Hebrew(the Old Testament) except parts of Daniel were written in Aramaic.Around 200 B.C. Hebrew scholars in Alexandria copied the Hebrew texts into Greek.This was called the "Septuagent".The New Testament was written in Greek all except Matthew which was written in Hebrew.(By the 1rst century Greek was the world wide language )
Jerome used the Septuagent to translate into Latin (which by his time was the world wide language)So by the time you get the whole Bible ,the Old Testament was witten in Hebrew,from Hebrew to Greek from Greel to Latin Latin to English.The New was Greek to Latin to English.(KJV)
The Guttenberg Bible was printed on the first printing press in German.
We have some Bibles that have gone straight from Greek to English (New American Standard) and it's the same as the King James essentially.
At the time of Jesus,the everyday language was Aramaic.The scholarly language was Hebrew and the world language was Greek ,slowly changing to Latin.
Later it became French and now is English but in the future it will probably be Chinese!:-)

Answer 4

The Catholic church put all the original writings together in one book in the late 300s AD. This was the first Bible. I believe it was in Latin, the language of Rome and the Church at that time.

Answer 5

Aramaic

Answer 6

The first book (let alone bible) to be published was the Gutenberg bible (German), wasn't it?

The press wasn't invented before then.

Answer 7

English. It was first "Published" in English. Prior to that, it was hand-written in various languages.

Answer 8

I'd guess Aramaic or Greek.

Answer 9

Hebrew and greek

Answer 10

Aramaic, that is why i don't believe in it. So much is lost in translation it is almost pointless!