All but forgotten today, the Geneva Bible was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower.
Mary I was Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 until her death in 1558. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet 'Bloody Mary.' It was her persecution that caused the Marian Exile which drove 800 English scholars to the European continent, where a number of them gathered in Geneva, Switzerland. There a team of scholars led by William Whittingham, and assisted by Miles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, John Knox, and Thomas Sampson, produced The Geneva Bible, based on Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and a revision of William Tyndale's New Testament, which first appeared in 1526. The Geneva Bible New Testament was published in 1557, with the complete Bible appearing in 1560.
A superb translation, it was the product of the best Protestant scholars of the day and became the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers and thinkers of that time. Men such as William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton used the Geneva Bible in their writings.
The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles. It was the first Bible to use chapters and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of its extensive marginal notes. These notes, written by Reformation leaders including John Calvin and others, were intended to help explain and interpret the Scriptures for the average reader.
Mary I was Queen of England and Ireland from 1553 until her death in 1558. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet 'Bloody Mary.' It was her persecution that caused the Marian Exile which drove 800 English scholars to the European continent, where a number of them gathered in Geneva, Switzerland. There a team of scholars led by William Whittingham, and assisted by Miles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, John Knox, and Thomas Sampson, produced The Geneva Bible, based on Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and a revision of William Tyndale's New Testament, which first appeared in 1526. The Geneva Bible New Testament was published in 1557, with the complete Bible appearing in 1560.
A superb translation, it was the product of the best Protestant scholars of the day and became the Bible of choice for many of the greatest writers and thinkers of that time. Men such as William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton used the Geneva Bible in their writings.
The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles. It was the first Bible to use chapters and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of its extensive marginal notes. These notes, written by Reformation leaders including John Calvin and others, were intended to help explain and interpret the Scriptures for the average reader.
The Geneva Study Bible offers new testament and old testament commentary from Calvin, Luther, Zwingli. Study the Bible online.
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This is an awesome scanned pdf. The fact that it was printed BEFORE the praised 1611 KJV bible, is something that in and of itself is very interesting to me. With the KJV having all the same books as this one, AND lacking several in the Old Testament, is very telling.
As for the person below me who left a review complaining about the OCR translation.... In case you are unaware, OCR is an acronym for Optical Character Recognition or Optical Character Reader, which, in this case, is a computer program that converts images of text, whether it be typed, handwritten or printed text, into encoded-text format. This Geneva Bible, being that it is written in Gothic type font, when put through the OCR tool, is much like putting an image of paisleys and doodles into the OCR; it wont recognize many of the words as correctly as it it would roman type font, if at all. I would be thankful to whoever took the time to sit down and scan each and every page of this book, saved it in PDf format, and uploaded it here free for anyone to read AND download. To complain about something a computer program did is childish, unnecessary and frankly rude to the person who created this pdf. Comments like these are the ones your mom was talking about when she would tell you 'keep your comments to yourself.'
As for the person below me who left a review complaining about the OCR translation.... In case you are unaware, OCR is an acronym for Optical Character Recognition or Optical Character Reader, which, in this case, is a computer program that converts images of text, whether it be typed, handwritten or printed text, into encoded-text format. This Geneva Bible, being that it is written in Gothic type font, when put through the OCR tool, is much like putting an image of paisleys and doodles into the OCR; it wont recognize many of the words as correctly as it it would roman type font, if at all. I would be thankful to whoever took the time to sit down and scan each and every page of this book, saved it in PDf format, and uploaded it here free for anyone to read AND download. To complain about something a computer program did is childish, unnecessary and frankly rude to the person who created this pdf. Comments like these are the ones your mom was talking about when she would tell you 'keep your comments to yourself.'