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THE NEW TESTAMENT OCTAPLA: Eight English Versions of the New Testament in the Tyndale - King James Tradition

1960 · 512163 — Thomas Nelson & Sons 1960. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Good. 1489pp. Large 4to sewn binding in publisher's brown buckram. Text with some light foxing around the edges small nick to tail of backstrip clean and unmarked otherwise with solid binding; DJ edgeworn and chipped at tail spine faded dampstain to spine interior now wrapped in mylar. 'The New Testament Octapla presents-for the first time-the full text of eight English translations of the New Testament from Tyndale to the Revised Standard Version arranged on facing pages. It shows the development of the Tyndale-King James tradi-tion in the succession of translations from 1525 to 1611 and in the revisions from 1870 to 1960. Versions included here with dates in parentheses indicating years of original publication are: Tyndale 1525 1535 Rheims 1582 Great Bible 1539 1540 King James 1611 1873 Geneva Bible 1560 1562 RV 1881 ASV 1901 Bishops Bible 1568 1602 RSV 1946 1960 TYNDALE is represented by his final revision the GH edition published in 1535 which is reprinted here for the first time in book form. Miles Coverdale's translation known as the GREAT BIBLE was commissioned by Sir Thomas Cromwell Secretary to King Henry VIII and Vicar General. The first edition published at London in 1539 was the first 'authorized' edition. The second edition used here was published in 1540. The GENEVA BIBLE was published by English Protestants who had fled to Geneva from the persecutions under Queen Mary. Although never 'authorized' it became the household Bible of the English-speaking peoples. The second edition 1562 is used The text of the BISHOPS' BIBLE is that of the revision of 1572 as printed in the edition of 1602. This Bible was authorized by Convocation and its possession enjoined upon the churches. This became the basis of the revision under King James. The RHEIMS translation is copied from the first edition 1582. It was made from the Latin Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars the larger part of the work being done by Gregory Martin. King James I ordained in 1604 that a translation of the whole Bible be made; in 1611 this version of the Bible was published with a dedication to him. The text of the KING JAMES VERSION here used is taken from the critical edition which was published as The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version in 1873. The revision of the 1870's is represented by the AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION 1901 rather than the Revised Version published in England in 1881 for its use led directly to the next major revision the REVISED STANDARD VERSION which appears here as published in 1960. Each of the versions is reproduced in The New Testament Octapla in the edition on which succeeding scholars have based their work. The copy of Tyndale's GH edition in the New York Public Library supplemented by photostats from the Bod-leian Library of Oxford University and photostats of the other sixteenth-century editions were used to ensure accuracy. The spelling punctuation and paragraphing of the selected edition of each version have been retained. Verse numbers have been added to Tyndale and the Great Bible to make for easier comparison.' From the dust jacket. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover