BATTLE OF THE BIBLES

H. H. MEYERS

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BIBLE BATTLE TIME LINE

  • A.D.

  • 70. Destruction of Jerusalem

  • 100. Death of apostle John

  • 150. Peshitta Bible

  • 157. Itala Bible

  • 312. Lucian of Antioch martyred

  • 313. Constantine's conversion to Christianity

  • 331. Supposed date of Sinaitic and Vaticanus Manuscripts

  •  360. Birth of Patrick

  • 382. Jerome's Vulgate

  • 390. (circa) Patrick returns to Ireland

  • 476 - 1453 Dark Ages

  • 1233. Gregory IX appoints Dominican's in charge of Inquisition

  • 1324. Birth of John Wycliffe

  • 1380. Wycliffe, John, completes English Bible

  • 1390. English Upper House moves to ban Wycliffe's N.T.

  •  1401. Sowtree, Wm. martyred at Smithfield 

  • 1440. Printing invented in Mainz

  • 1467 (-1536) Erasmus born

  • 1483 (-1546) Luther born

  • 1505. Erasmus edits annotations of Valla 

  • 1507. Erasmus visits Rome

  • 1510 - 1514 Erasmus lectures at Oxford

  • 1516. Erasmus publishes his Greek N.T. 

  • 1522. Luther's German N.T. published 

  • 1524. Tyndale flees to Germany

  • 1525. Tyndale publishes his English N.T. 

  • 1530. Tyndale's N.T. burnt in England

  • 1534. English Parliament abrogates papal supremacy 

  • 1535. Coverdale's Bible

  • 1536. Tyndale martyred

  • 1537. Matthews English Bible published 

  • 1537. Olivetan French Bible published 

  • 1539. The Great Bible

  • 1545 - 1563 Council of Trent 

  • 1547. Henry VIII dies

  • 1553. Edward VI dies

  • 1555. John Rogers martyred

  • 1555. Wm. Hunter martyred 

  • 1560. Geneva Bible published

  • 1560. Goa (Indian) Inquisition established 

  • 1562. Dousy College established by Philip II 

  • 1581. Portugal annexed by Spain

  • A.D. P 1582. Rheims (Jesuit) English N.T. published

  • 1586. Babington Conspiracy 

  • 1588. Spanish Armada sails

  • 1603. James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England 

  • 1611. Authorised Bible of King James published 

  • 1804. British and Foreign Bible Society founded 

  • 1809. New York Bible Society founded 

  • 1816. American Bible Society founded 

  • 1817. British and Foreign Bible Society enters Australia 

  • 1831. Trinitarian Bible Society founded 

  • 1833. Oxford (Tractarian) Movement founded 

  • 1844. Philip Schaff arrives in USA 

  • 1850. Wiseman made a Cardinal 

  • 1859. Sinaiticus MS (Aleph) rediscovered in Sinai 

  • 1870. KJV Revision Body appointed

  • 1881. Revised N.T. published Ill, 

  • 1883. Burgon's "Revision Revised" published

  • 1901. British and Foreign Bible Society agree to distribute RV 

  • 1930. Wilkinson publishes "Our Authorised Bible Vindicated" 

  • 1930. General Conference of SDA reject Wilkinson's book 

  • 1944. Wilkinson's, book "Truth Triumphant" published

  • 1946. United Bible Society formed

  • 1950. American Bible Society associates with National Council of Churches 

  • 1952. Revised Standard Version published 

  • 1962. 1965 Vatican Council II

  • 1966. United Bible Society agrees to circulate Apocrypha 

  • 1971. Jerusalem Bible published 

  • 1973. New International Version published

  • 1984. Bible Societies liberalize constitution to include all Christian faiths

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