09 August 2011

400th Anniversary of the Bible

Hey, girls, check out this cool Timeline of the English Bible I found. This year is the 400th anniversary of the King James Version, and I'm putting this cool little book into my Book of Centuries. I've been thinking I need to learn more about the events that brought us the Bible for a while now. This is the first article of a 7-part series that was in the Ensign, about how we got the Bible, that I've been meaning to read for quite some time now. Thought I'd pass along the link in case anyone else was interested.

7 comments:

Aamer Waqas Chaudhary said...

Thank you for the information!

WHOIS BID said...

I wonder if the bible was lost and then found again because there was a period of time when so many people had it and then it is mysterious why it disappeared. I can't remember the exact time but I think it was several hundred years after the apostles

Ritsumei said...

I have a book about how the Bible came to be that's just fascinating. I haven't read it all yet (too too many irons in my fire!) but it talks about how the manuscripts come to us, and how different books were included in different versions, most famously the apocrypha is in some, but not considered cannon in others. It's a very interesting process.

cirrus said...

Have you read "The Red Tent" yet? Fabulously fantastic book about the (fictional, yet probably super close to actual) lives of Jacob, Esau, Dinah, Rachel, and their families. I'd go so far as to label it a must read for any and all women! Check it out if you get a chance, I think you would love it. (Kinda like one of your favorite books, "The Good Son" by Pearl S. Buck). Love ya cuz!

cirrus said...

Oh darn it, I meant "The Good Earth."

Joshua said...

the bible was written in 1600 hundred years...

Rachel said...

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