Gwyn picks up where she left off last week with the A.D timeline of how Scripture came together. Catch up here if you missed it!
-0-35AD life of Jesus. Jesus affirms the authority of the Old testament by quoting from it.
-100BC-450AD: The Romans had continued efforts to unify territories by building elaborate systems of roads, buildings, walls and canals. These Roads and the sea routes that were established became the routes that Christians used to carry the gospel to every corner of the known world.
-150AD: New Testament books were circulated and used enough to be referred to as the New Testament.
-200AD : Bible translated into 7 languages
-300AD: Constantine legalizes Christianity, NT books are collected and circulated. OT and NT canon confirmed.
-300 - 1400 Vellum and parchment were used to make copies of the bible. oldest vellum 325-350.
-382: Jerome translation called Latin Vulgate 23 years. Jerome is credited with assembling the full Bible and making full copy translation
-400AD full 27 books listed and affirmed by east and west church; the three church elders (Athanasius, Jerome and Augustine and 3 church counsels)
-500-900AD: Masoretes copy Hebrew scriptures- elaborate system to assure accuracy of copying.
-500AD: translated into 13 languages
-500-900 AD Dark ages: Bible only available in the Latin Vulgate and only organized clergy had access to the limited handwritten copies. lost a connection to the contextual cultural heritage of the original audience of scripture.
-Cultural sin to read the Bible for himself or try to understand the scriptures.
-900AD: Bible translated into 17 languages
-1300AD (1382) first English Bible Wycliffe Bible
-Wycliffe Bible banned and burned. John W. body is exhumed and burnt 40 yrs after death.
1400 Bible translated into 28 languages
1408 illegal to translate the Bible into common English without Bishops approval
1455 Gutenberg Printing Press: Gutenberg Bible is the first book ever printed.
1516: Erasmus priest and Greek scholar (goal was to get the bible into the hand of every farmer and weaver) accurate Latin translation: used by Martin Luther
1522: Martin Luther translates the NT into German.
William Tyndale early 1500 committed to putting the Bible into the everyday language of the English speaking people. Opposition: shipwreck, loss of manuscripts, secret agents, betrayal by friends, succeeded but captured, imprisoned, strangled and burned.
Lots of rough years for Bible translators wanting English Bible.
1611 AD King James Version completed: 54 scholars are commissioned to undertake a Bible translation: 6 years, six teams. Source material: Tyndale’s Bible, the Bishops Bible and available Greek and Hebrew manuscripts.
1629-1947 several of the earliest known copies of the Bible were found.
1692 codex Alexandrinus - from 400ad - best copy of revelation.- made available to western scholars.
1870 KJV revised to use better Greek and Hebrew texts and to retranslate words based on new info about ancient Hebrew.
1947 The Dead Sea Scrolls: copied around 100BC(1,000 years earlier)
