THE HISTORY OF THE KING JAMES VERSION
THE MASSORETIC TEXT: The Old Testament Preserved primarily
in the Massoretic, or Hebrew text.
THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT (SEPTUAGINT): (Made by a delegation
of seventy Jewish elders)
THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT: The writing of Peter, Paul, James
John, etc., under Holy inspiration,
written in the Koine Greek, on
papyrus sheets. THE ORIGINAL NEW
TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS.(30-90 A.D.)
THE SYRIAN MS. OF ASIA MINOR: ( The Peshito Bible. )
( 100-200 A.D. )
THE OLD LATIN AND OLD SYRIAC OF THE ORIGINALS: (100-200 A.D.)
THE PAPYRUS READINGS OF THE RECEPTUS: (150-400 A.D.)
THE UNCIAL READINGS OF THE RECEPTUS: (150-400 A.D.)
THE GOTHIC BIBLE OF ULFILAS: (310 A.D.)
THE LATIN BIBLES OF THE WALDENSIANS: (1100-1300 A.D.)
THE LATIN BIBLES OF THE ALBIGENESES: (1300-1500 A.D.)
THE LATIN BIBLES OF THE LOLLARDS: (1382-1550 A.D.)
MARTIN LUTHER'S GERMAN BIBLE: (1522-1534 A.D.)
THE RUSSIAN, FRENCH, NORWEGIAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN,
BULGARIAN, RUMANIAN, SWISS, SWEDISH, AUSTRIAN, AND
CZECH BIBLES THAT CAME FROM LUTHER'S VERSION:
(1540-1900 A.D.)
The English Versions:
WYCLIFFE: (1382 A.D.)
TYNDALE: (1522 A.D.)
ERASMUS: (1522 A.D.)
COVERDALE: (1535 A.D.)
MATTHEWS: (1537 A.D.)
(THIS COLLECTION OF
THE RECEPTUS OF 1516: - MANUSCRIPTS, BEGINING
BEZA'S RECEPTUS OF 1565: - WITH RECEPTUS OF 1516,
STEPHANUS RECEPTUS OF 1550:- UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF
ELZEVIR'S RECEPTUS OF 1624:- ERASMUS, IS CALLED THE
TEXTUS RECEPTUS, OR
RECEIVED TEXT.)
THE KING JAMES AUTHORIZED VERSION OF 1611:
MADE BY FORTY-SEVEN SCHOLARS UNDER THE AUTHORIZATION OF KING
JAMES I, OF ENGLAND. THE HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS WERE STUDIED AND
OTHER ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, WITH THE VIEW OF OBTAINING THE BEST
RESULTS.