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- Matthew Carey, a Roman Catholic printer in Philadelphia, published a Douay-Rheims Bible in 1790. (The Douay-Rheims is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English for the Roman Catholic church.)
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The first full Bible printed in the Western Hemisphere appeared in 1663 and was written in Wampanoag, an indigenous language. The text was translated by John Eliot, a Puritan missionary, and two Native American scholars, Job Nesuton and James Printer.
- The Bible in Colonial America
The most widely used Bible in colonial America was the...
- The Bible in Colonial America
Aug 24, 2024 · Bible in America. America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 (Online) by Mark A. Noll Shows how the Bible shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture.
- Bibles Travel to America
- Early American Bibles
- The Aitken Bible of 1782
- Other Firsts For American Bibles
The Geneva Biblewas the first Bible brought to America, specifically to Plymouth, in 1620, and probably to Jamestown in 1607. This Bible, first published in 1560, was unique in that it had verse divisions, used smaller Roman type, was more compact, and had italicized words that were not in the original Greek or Hebrew, among other innovations. The ...
The first complete Bible of any sort to be published in America didn’t come along until 1663. John Eliot’s Algonquin-language translation of the Bible, the so-called “Eliot Indian Bible,” was the first Bible to be published in the Western Hemisphere. Reverend John Eliot (1604-1690) arrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1631 and spent the rest of his life...
Robert Aitken emigrated from Scotland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1769. He opened a bookshop and began “The Pennsylvania Magazine,” to which Thomas Payne often contributed. Starting in 1776, Aitken became the official printer of the Journals of Congress. Aitken printed the New Testament in English in 1771, 1778, 1779, 1780, and 1781. Under the...
From then on, more and more Bibles were printed in America, without regulation by the government as there had previously been. Matthew Carey and William Young produced the first Roman Catholic English American edition in 1790. Charles Thomson studied the Septuagint and produced the first translation of the Septuagintinto English, which was also the...
- Alyssa Roat
The most widely used Bible in colonial America was the Protestant King James Version of 1611. Yet Protestants, whose reliance on Scripture guided private lives and also influenced the public sphere, often differed seriously among themselves about what the Bible meant and how it should be followed.
Dec 8, 2021 · The first complete Bible to be printed in the 13 colonies was published by an English missionary, John Eliot, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1663. The Eliot Indian Bible, also known as the Algonquin Bible or "Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God" was a version of the Geneva Bible.
Gottlob Jungmann printed a large German Bible (1805), the first German Lutheran quarto Bible printed in America and the first Bible of Reading, Pennsylvania. The Bible contains Jungmann's preface and quotes most of the preface of Christoph Saur Jr. as found in the 1776 Bible.
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Isaac Collins printed his Bible in 1791; the Collins Bible became known as the first "Family Bible" printed in America. Isaiah Thomas published the first illustrated King James Bible in 1791. And John Thompson in 1798 produced the first King James Bible to be hot-pressed in America.
