English Translation of the Bible
"The story of the English Bible begins with the introduction of Christianity into Britain'
the missionary work proceeded almost entirely by means of the spoken word."# Some interlinear translations into Old English began to appear in the ninth and tenth centuries. "The Norman conquest of England (A.D. 1066) marked the end of the production of Scripture translation into Anglo-Saxon and Old English."# Latin was still the language of the clergy but not the people. It wasn't until the fourteenth century until English translation of parts of the Scripture began to reappear. The early church needed few translations. Believers copied and circulated Scriptures in Greek that everyone could read. But during the 4th century, Latin began to replace Greek as the common language. Several Latin translations, often inaccurate, leaked into circulation.# The Church needed an official translation. The first complete English Bible that is known of was due in......
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Approximate Word Count: 3535
Approximate Pages: 14 (260 words per double-spaced page) |