This Bible was originally published for my own personal use.
In fact, the Geneva Bible was the principal English Bible initially brought to American soil, making it the Bible that shaped early American life and impacted Colonial culture more than.
Actually, the King James Bible required decades to surpass the popularity of the Geneva and supplant it from the hearts of the English speaking world.
Its widespread use first solidified the English language among the common people, not the 1611 King James Bible as many assume.
And for the first time common people could not only understand the words in the Bible, they could actually own one.
Between its first edition of 1560 and its last edition in 1644, 160 editions, totaling around a half million Bibles, were produced.
With prologues before each book, extensive marginal notes, and a brief concordance, the Geneva Bible was in fact the first English study Bible.
It was also the first to use plain Roman type, which was more readable than the old Gothic type, and it was in a handy quarto size for easy use.
It was the first Bible to use italics to indicate words not in the original language and the first Bible to change the values of ancient coins into English pound sterling equivalents.
It was the first English Bible to have modern verse divisions as well as modern chapter divisions.
When the Geneva translation of the New Testament appeared in 1557 and the entire Bible in 1560, it was innovative in both text and format, and quickly became the household Bible of English speaking people.
The work was led by William Whittingham.
The English refugees living in Geneva completed the translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to English for the first time.
Though the text is principally just a revision of William Tyndales earlier work of 1534, Tyndale only translated the New Testament and the Old Testament through 2 Chronicles before he was imprisoned.
The Geneva Bible was the first English version to be translated entirely from the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
Other words where necessary were also updated to modern English.
Spelling has been updated such as the use of the letter i, u and v, to the modern use of these letters.
No commentary, no side notes, no concordance.
No bells or whistles here, just the 1560 Geneva New Testament text.
More info is available at wisdombooks.faith.
I decided to offer it to the Saints (my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus) at the lowest price possible.
This Bible was originally published for my own personal use
