THE NEW AMERICAN BIBLE 2002.11.11 See also: Credits IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. A Visual History of the English Bible. Philadelphia, PA, 1942. Carl Cist, whose birth name was Carl Thiel, was apparently the first in America to publish New Testaments in more than one language, and was also the first in America to publish a pharmacopoeia. CBA members share their scholarship during the Association's Annual General Meeting and in its publications (The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Old Testament Abstracts, and the CBQ Monograph Series). Steiner and Cist had been partners in a printing business from 1776 to 1781. Free Catholic Bibles: E100 military edition with Lectio Divina are available to U.S. servicemen and women, veterans, and their families from American Bible Society. It has been dubbed the first Bible printed in America on American-made paper, even though American paper was probably used for the 1743 Bible. London, 1659. Through accessibly written information and engaging visuals that highlight and clarify significant areas of Scripture, readers will easily gain an understanding of these ancient texts that can be carried into today's world. Carbondale, IL, 1972. The Catholic Children's Illustrated Bible. Send checks & invoices to: Catholic Biblical Association . New York, NY, 1963. The ABS was funded by protestants with the stipulation that the ABS translations would reflect only the text of the Authorized Version.
John Carroll, the American Catholic superior who had encouraged Carey, estimated a Catholic population of only 25,000, out of 3.5 million total inhabitants in America in 1785. The United States and England were at war, but both countries cooperated in this Bible effort. Alderfer, E. G. The Ephrata Commune: An Early American Counterculture. The Johann Bar Bible is substantial in both printing and binding, and contains frontispiece engravings to the Old Testament (Moses with the Tables of the Law) and the New Testament (Adoration of the Shepherds) by the engraver J. Henry. Noah Webster (1758-1843), became famous for his dictionary (1828) and The American Spelling Book (“Blue-Back Speller”). McGrath, Alister E. In The Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. Christoph Saur shipped a dozen copies of his 1743 German Bible to Dr. Heinrich Luther in Frankfurt, since Dr. Luther had sent the metal type to Saur for printing the Bibles.
Another Catholic staff member works to form links with Catholic publishers, including Loyola Press. Using archival material and personal interviews, Fea recounts the development of the American Bible Society, founded in 1816 to produce nondenominational Bibles in all languages. Shea, John Gilmary. Studer, Gerald. Americans desperately need the Bible's foundation of truth.
This training will prepare ministers to lead small groups of incarcerated persons in learning how to respond to their life trauma through . Lost people need the hope of the gospel. The result is the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation equally suitable for private devotions, careful study, and reading aloud in public. Webster, a Congregationalist, updated antiquated English vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation. Grand Rapids, MI, 1983. Institutions that have openings in Scripture or related fields are invited to send us information concerning them, and we will gladly publicize them in the Recent Job Openngs section of our website. ECFA. Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, a friend of the Indians and author of A Key into the Language of America, owned a copy in which his handwritten marginal notes are preserved.
A Bibliographical Account of Catholic Bibles, Testaments...Printed in the United States. The Geneva Bible had features, novel for its time, which made it popular. Ephrata published New Testaments in 1787, 1795, and 1796, and Psalters in 1793, 1795, and 1797. The master printer followed up in 1814 with a German New Testament. He moved from Germantown to Baltimore in 1794, and the 1796 Psalter has been cited as the first portion of Scripture published in the American South. Charles Hodge, a leading Presbyterian theologian at Princeton Seminary, praises Leeser's Hebrew Bible in the Princeton Review. The best translation ever for just sitting down and reading God's word; presented in the Catholic Edition is a real treasure for Roman Catholic Christians and a gift from the American Bible Society who created the translation and offer it in both Protestant & Catholic editions. The Bibles have 16-17 cm. Philadelphia, PA, 1985. Another, near-perfect, copy in original binding can be seen at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, an important repository of old Bibles and canonical manuscripts. Benjamin Mayer moved on to print the Luther version of the German New Testament again in Harrisburg in 1800 (Evans 36956). The first diglot (bilingual) New Testament in America, a Greek-Latin Testament edited by John Watts, was printed in Philadelphia in 1806 by S. F. Bradford (image). Committed to our mission of promoting biblical literacy, understanding, and dialogue. 1973. Indian Converts: A Cultured Edition. Navigate by book, topic, passage, search and more. Cambridge, MA, 1666. The Bible Brings Hope to Our Nation. Bibliographic Notes on Eliot’s Indian Bible, and His other Translations and Works in the Indian Language of Massachusetts. Memoir of Isaiah Thomas. In addition, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Bethany Christian Services, where he led ministry efforts in 36 states and 15 countries . A 1954 edition by Falcon’s Wing Press in Colorado (Hills 2540) (image) added a portion of the book of Esther not included in the original Thomson Bible. The Bible in America. Lectio Divina Resources. Marketplace | Wright, Thomas Goddard.
Beissel had come to America in 1720, and had been apprenticed in Germantown to Peter Becker, who baptized him in 1724. I located copies of this 1787 version in just over a dozen library collections in the United States. He unfortunately, as Margaret Hills notes, substituted “euphemisms” for words he considered “very offensive to delicacy.” O’Callaghan noted that the text is from the quarto edition of the 1791 Isaac Collins Bible from which the publishing error in 1 Timothy 4:16 is repeated.
Hanover, NH, 1989. The Printed Book in America. In England the first printing was in 1575 by Christopher Barker. 1727. The Green Collection, containing more than 40,000 biblical antiquities, is among the world’s largest private collections, and will be permanently housed in a museum in Washington, D.C. Ron Davis, an Indiana physician, collects early American Bibles and Bibles in many languages.
Copyright © 2003-2015 International Society of Bible Collectors. The 1791 Wesley translation was the third English translation published in America, the King James (1777) and Carey's Douay-Rheims (1790) antedating the Wesley version. 433 Caldwell Hall, The Catholic University of America Washington, District Of Columbia 20064 United States 202.319.5519 London, England, 1643. Rev. Jesus Christ. Samuel Saur cast an undersized Diamond type for a small (5 inch height) English-language Bible, the “First American Diamond Edition.” The Bible was printed by his nephew Brook W. Sower (son of Christoph Sower III) in Baltimore in 1812 (Hills 217), probably the first Bible printed in Maryland. Past Events View Calendar. Revised & Amplified by Sebastion Bullaugh. Pope, Hugh. Bound in water-resistant, earth-toned digital camouflage covers, the special . Bradsher, E. L. Mathew Carey, Editor, Publisher, and Author. In the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania surpassed Massachusetts in the printing of the Scriptures. "Throughout its history, the people of God have always found strength in the Word of God, and today…the ecclesial . An edition of the Gospels in Anglo-Saxon was published in New York by Wiley & Putnam (1846). CATH-RG15230 Catholic Book Publishing. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868), originally from Prussia, was a leading Jewish Rabbi, and the foremost Jewish scholar of early America. In 1940 Edwin Rumball-Petre, in America’s First Bibles, registered 134 copies of the 1743 Bible in America, Germany, Denmark, and England. The Saurs, father and son, also published Psalters (hymnals) for use in singing. Cambridge, MA, 1989. Ithaca, NY, 1994. A second revision (Hills 1791) was reprinted a number of times up until 1874 (image).
American Bible Society is pleased to offer licensing rights to a variety of Bible Texts, Artwork/Illustrations, Scholarly Editions, Bible Atlas/Maps, and Video/Audio in the following Bible translations, Reina-Valera 1960: the best-selling Spanish Bible translation in the world, Good News Translation: formerly called the Good News Bible or Today . At Boston in 1810, the first French New Testament in America was published, a de Sacy version, based on the Latin Vulgate (image). George Washington was the first subscriber. Samuel Sower, as documented in Isaiah Thomas’ book on early American printing, developed a type making business in Baltimore, S. Sower and Company. New York, NY, 1849. Drawing upon recent textual scholarship and reflecting careful consideration of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Revised Edition NAB contains a fully revised Old Testament and a Psalter that is rendered to provide a smooth, rhythmic translation. It was, however, in widespread use earlier in Virginia and the middle colonies than in New England. The translation was done by Lawrence Claesse, interpreter to missionary William Andrews. New York, NY, 1916. webmaster with questions or comments about this web site.
The Ephrata Testament was a reprint from the Swiss-German Bible, Christoph Froschauer’s 1529 “combined” version, and more specifically, the Taufer Testament, published in Zurich two hundred years later (in 1729) from the Froschauer text. Kentucky's first Bible (Hills 376) was published in Lexington by William G. Hunt in 1819, stereotyped for the American Bible Society from plates of D. & G. Bruce of New York. In 1800, Isaiah Thomas Jr. of Worcester, Massachusetts, printed the first Greek Testament in America (Evans 36952) (image). Bound in water-resistant, earth-toned digital camouflage covers, the special volume of the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) is durable, lightweight, and handy for easy . The New American Bible is one of three Catholic Bibles approved for use in the liturgy, and is the official translation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Tebbel, John. Charlottesville, VA, 1964, 4th ed.
Rheims New Testaments from the Vulgate were also published by Carey in 1805 (Hills 126) (image), 1811 (Hills 196), and 1816 (Hills 309), the last a school edition containing the Psalms. The story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago. An absorbing account...a tale of terror. —New York Times Book Review American Bible Society. Placing a special emphasis on pastors and those involved in parish ministry or catechesis, American Bible Society's Catholic Ministries offer several resources to help leaders and communities engage with Lectio Divina. Cambridge, England, 1963. Box 713Waddell, AZ 85355 USA (623.977.1475). NY, 1931, Portland, ME, 1938, Charlottesville, VA, 1964. Title: GNT Pew Bible Catholic, Paper Over Board, Burgundy By: American Bible Society Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 1865 Vendor: American Bible Society Publication Date: 2006 Dimensions: 8.30 X 5.40 X 2.00 (inches) Weight: 2 pounds 2 ounces ISBN: 1585160679 ISBN-13: 9781585160679 Text Size: 9.5 Point Stock No: WW160679 Imprintable: No Hall, Isaac H. American Greek Testaments. This New Testament is today in the collection of the University of Bern (Switzerland), the Mennonite Historical Library (Goshen, Indiana) and several Mennonite colleges, the Pennsylvania State Library (Harrisburg), the Free Library (Philadelphia), and the Beegley Library (Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA). Shop now. Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of the Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 4 volumes, London & New York, 1903-1911. This Bible has no chapter or verse numbers, study notes, cross references, red lettering, or footnotes in order to help readers experience the Bible in . Proud of our 210-year history of uniting people across the theological spectrum around the importance of the Bible. Help provide Bibles to waiting hands and open hearts. Some of the Bibles also contained, as an option, three other books from the Berleburg Bible, the third and fourth book of Ezra and the third book of Maccabees. Saur learned printing skills from the Ephrata brethren, some of whom had previously learned the skills in their European homeland. ECFA. Title: Catholic Bible, Burgundy, hardcover By: American Bible Society Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 1742 Vendor: American Bible Society Publication Date: 2011 Dimensions: 8.30 X 5.40 X 1.80 (inches) Weight: 2 pounds ISBN: 1585166790 ISBN-13: 9781585166794 Stock No: WW166790 Imprintable: No Add to. Washington, D.C., 1948. The History of Printing in America, 1810, 2nd edition Albany, NY, 1874. January 10, 2008 - 7:25 PST. Eliot, although discouraged, persevered in the work until his death at the age of 85. Philadelphia, PA, 1883. The English Bible in America: A Bibliography of Editions of the Bible & New Testament Published in America 1777-1957. Mayhew, Experience. The 1795 and 1796 (30081) Ephrata New Testaments and 1797 Psalter are Martin Luther versions and give Benjamin Mayer (variant spelling Meyer) as the printer.
CBA annually invites applications for its annual Emerging Scholars Fellowship. The Revolutionary War ended, and better-quality, imported Bibles became available. Fraktur typeface was easier to read than antigua for the German settlers, already accustomed to Fraktur in their homelands. Boston, MA, 1929. America’s first Hebrew Bible (based on Van der Hoog’s 1705 Amsterdam edition) was printed by William Fry and published by Thomas Dobson, in Philadelphia in 1814.
Editions of the Bible or Parts thereof in English. Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America. Kenrick presided over St Joseph's College (Bardstown, Kentucky), became a bishop (1830), founded a Philadelphia seminary, and became Archbishop of Baltimore (1851). Rev. The Genevan Bible: Notes on Its Production and Distribution, Dublin, Ireland, 1937. A Good News Translation Bible that fully integrates the Deuterocanonical Books used by Roman Catholics within the Old Testament, sequenced according to the Latin Vulgate order. Includes illustrations by Annie Vallotton. Robinson, H. Wheeler, ed. Somerset, PA, 1963. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles Compared. What does the text say to you? This pocket-sized Bible without Apocrypha contained, after the title page, a seven-page Synopsis or “Brief Commentary” for each of the 66 books of the Bible. The text was printed by B. Young also printed Bibles in 1791, 1792, and 1802 (some also with the Metrical Psalms). Daye printed 1600 copies of the 1640 first edition at a total cost of 33 pounds, the books being priced at 20 pence each. Mashpee Indians, who had the highest literacy rate among the Massachuset Indians, still owned copies of the Eliot Bibles in the nineteenth century. The ponderous Illuminated Bible was embellished with 1,600 engravings by J. American Bible Society is a Christian ministry engaging people with the life-changing message of God's Word since 1816. Reprinted, Bedford, MA, 2001. The first complete Bible in French was published by the New York Bible Society in 1815. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers.
Send mail to the Although the Catholic Church is built on centuries of rich theological and liturgical traditions, Catholic leaders continue to rely on Scripture as they fuel the Church's mission in modern society. In 1824 the American Bible Society published America's first Spanish Bible, also in the Scio version, with the Deuterocanonical books (Protestant Apocrypha) (image), which was not removed until the fifth edition. New York, NY, 1936. THE NEW AMERICAN BIBLE 2002.11.11 See also: Credits IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. Nashville, TN, 1968. The Thomson Old Testament was reprinted by S. F. Pells of Hove, England, in two volumes, in 1904 (Herbert 2134), and again in 1907 (image), and the New Testament in 1929 (image), all in London, England. This option will cost you only $5 per three samples. A History of Book Publishing in the United States, 4 volumes. Remarkably, he obtained the support not only of Quakers, but of Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Baptist bodies, in his state. Pocket-sized New Testaments (5 inch height) had previously been printed in English by Brook Sower in Baltimore (1810, 1811), the 1810 edition being the first Maryland New Testament (Hills 185). Herbert, A. S. Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961. 3), Welsh (1855), and Cherokee (1858). Revised Edition Information.
Frederick Goeb: Master Printer. Because substantial financial support for publication came from England, and because the “Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England” had been organized in England to support the mission work in Massachusetts, some of these first Bibles were sent back to England. Catholic leaders are looking for new ways to promote more Bible reading among their congregations. It was not stereotyped. Together with dioceses across the nation, American Bible Society is working to create innovative resources that inspire more engagement with the Bible. He was arrested, and his property, including the printing press, was eventually confiscated and auctioned. In 1954 only 35 copies of the Carey Catholic Bible were extant. Isaiah Thomas: Printer, Patriot, and Philanthropist 1749-1831. Pennypacker, Samuel W. Historical and Biographical Sketches. JAMES . Rumball-Petre, Edwin. The first Ohio Bible (Hills 702), a stereotyped Bible with Apocrypha and supplementary material, was printed in 1830 in Cincinnati by Morgan & Sanxay, who Hills refers to as “the largest printers in the western Country.” The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County has a copy. Bedford, MA, 1936. Germantown, PA, 1902, 4th edition 1926. A History of Bible Translation and the American Contribution.
Unbound Bibles cost twelve shillings (equivalent to about $80 today), while copies bound at the shop of the Ephrata brotherhood cost eighteen shillings (about $120). Jacobus, Melancthon Williams, ed. New Brunswick, NJ, 1968. These diglots included German/English (1849), Dutch/English (1849) (image), Danish/English (1849) (image), Swedish/English (1850), Spanish/English (1850), French/English (1853), Welsh/English (1855) and Portuguese/English (1857) (image). Eames, Wilberforce. He produced a Primer or Catechism in Algonquian (1654), and translated and secured publication of Genesis (1655), Matthew's Gospel (1655), and the Psalms (1658). Today, the 1743 Saur Bible is the scarcest of the three, further evidence that the “Gun Wad” story is merely a legend.
We are biblical scholars from all traditions. Protestant Reformers John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox were active in Geneva, a primarily French-speaking Protestant republic. New York, NY, 1905. Campbell, an astute student of Greek, based his text on the 1809-1810 edition of Griesbach’s New Testament. "Scripture is the gateway to Jesus, because through the written Word, one gains knowledge of him.". this guide will help you walk through scripture and engage with god's word in a whole new way. A critically acclaimed modern translation of the Bible into English, based on the latest advances in biblical scholarship, features a concise two-column format for easier reading, a low price, and a reader-friendly design. In 1940, Rumball-Petre registered 71 copies of the Aitken Bible and estimated that there were less than 100 extant. This organization in turn experienced a secession, the recalcitrants forming the American Bible Union, in 1850. Elgin, IL, 1908. Greenslade, S. L., ed. Again, from the American Bible Society, there has been a schism of Baptists, originating, as in England, over the translation of baptizein. Billmeyer was a prolific printer of the German New Testament (Das Neue Testament) in the Martin Luther version, beginning with the 1787 first edition (Evans 20236). It is the de facto standard Bible translation for the Catholic Church in America. Contemplation. Leeser spent 15 years in preparation for this acclaimed work. In 1728 Beissel had the first German-language book in America, his book about the Sabbath, Da Buchlein vom Sabbath, published by Andrew Bradford. Historic Bibles in America. Site Store.
Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament...The First American Edition, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1791. Whittingham was helped by Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, William Cole, Christopher Goodman, and Laurence Thomson, especially in completing the Old Testament. The paper for the Bible was traditionally thought to have been imported from Europe, but some experts believe the paper came from the Rittenhouse mill in Philadelphia or the Cloister mill in Ephrata. The Life of John Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians. If the free essay example you can find on our website is not enough, you can get 3 extracts from previous papers NRSV Extra Large Print Catholic Bible|American Bible Society produced by this author. Thomas was editor of the Massachusetts Spy newspaper, and founder of the American Antiquarian Society which is still active today. The earliest published sermons and writings in New England are evidence of almost exclusive use of the Geneva version.
The New Testament was printed again in 1663 and 1680 with the title in the Massachuset dialect instead of English. One more thing that I am so far pleased with is the apparent avoidance of "inclusive," stilted language which was, for me, a big cringe-worthy negative with the NEW Jerusalem Bible. In 1787, German New Testaments were printed in Pennsylvania by Sabbatarian (Seventh Day) Dunkers of the Ephrata Cloister and by a Lutheran printer, Michael Billmeyer.
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