'Timeline'
How We Got Our Present Bible


  • 500 BC: Completion of All Original Hebrew Manuscripts which Make Up The 39 Books of the Old Testament

  • 200 BC: Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts which Contain The 39 Old Testament Books AND 14 Apocrypha Books

  • 1st Century AD: Completion of All Original Greek Manuscripts which Make Up The 27 Books of the New Testament

  • 390 AD: Jerome's Latin Vulgate Manuscripts Produced which Contain All 80 Books (39 Old Test. + 14 Apocrypha + 27 New Test.)

  • 500 AD: Scriptures have been Translated into Over 500 Languages

  • 600 AD: LATIN was the Only Language Allowed for Scripture

  • 995 AD: Anglo-Saxon (Early Roots of English Language) Translations of The New Testament Produced

  • 1384 AD: Wycliffe is the First Person to Produce a (Hand-Written) Manuscript Copy of the Complete Bible; All 80 Books

  • 1455 AD: Gutenberg Invents the Printing Press; Books May Now be Mass-Produced Instead of Individually Hand-Written. The First Book Ever Printed is Gutenberg's Bible in Latin.

  • 1516 AD: Erasmus Produces a Greek/Latin Parallel New Testament

  • 1522 AD: Martin Luther's German New Testament

  • 1525 AD: William Tyndale's New Testament; The First New Testament to be Printed in the English Language

  • 1535 AD: Myles Coverdale's Bible; The First Complete Bible to be Printed in the English Language (80 Books: O.T. & N.T. & Apocrypha)

  • 1537 AD: Matthews Bible; The Second Complete Bible to be Printed in English. Done by John "Thomas Matthew" Rogers (80 Books).

  • 1539 AD: The "Great Bible" Printed; The First English Language Bible to be Authorized for Public Use (80 Books).

  • 1560 AD: The Geneva Bible Printed; The First English Language Bible to Add Numbered Verses to Each Chapter (80 Books).

  • 1568 AD: The Bishops Bible Printed; The Bible of which the King James was a Revision (80 Books).

  • 1609 AD: The Douay Old Testament is added to the Rheimes New Testament (of 1582) Making the First Complete English Catholic Bible; Translated from the Latin Vulgate (80 Books).

  • 1611 AD: The King James Bible Printed; Originally with All 80 Books which included The Apocrypha. The 14 books of the Apocraypha were removed in a later version.

  • 1782 AD: Robert Aitken's Bible; The First English Language Bible (a King James Version without Apocrypha) to be Printed in America

  • 1791 AD: Isaac Collins and Isaiah Thomas Respectively Produce the First Family Bible and First Illustrated Bible Printed in America. Both were King James Versions, with All 80 Books.

  • 1808 AD: Jane Aitken's Bible (Daughter of Robert Aitken); The First Bible to be Printed by a Woman.

  • 1833 AD: Noah Webster's Bible; After Producing his Famous Dictionary, Webster Printed his Own Revision of the King James Bible.

  • 1841 AD: English Hexapla New Testament; an Early Textual Comparison Showing the Greek and 6 Famous English Translations in Parallel Columns.

  • 1846 AD: The Illuminated Bible; The Most Lavishly Illustrated Bible Printed in America. A King James Version, with All 80 Books.

  • 1885 AD: The "Revised Version" Bible; The First Major English Revision of the King James Bible

  • 1901 AD: The "American Standard Version"; The First Major American Revision of the King James Bible

  • 1971 AD: The "New American Standard Bible" (NASB) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Word for Word English Translation" of the Bible.

  • 1973 AD: The "New International Version" (NIV) is Published as a "Modern and Accurate Phrase for Phrase English Translation" of the Bible.

  • 1982 AD: The "New King James Version" (NKJV) is Published as a "Modern English Version Maintaining the Original Style of the King James".

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