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The Bay Psalm Book
In the winter of 1639 and 1640, in a wooden house not far from the Charles River at Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a printer named Stephen Daye pulled sheets off…
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Olivétan’s French Bible of 1535
On 4 June 1535 the printer Pierre de Wingle finished, at Serrières on the shore of the lake of Neuchâtel, the printing of a large folio Bible in French.1 Its title announced…
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The Brest Bible of 1563
On 4 September 1563 the printer Bernard Wojewódka completed, at Brest on the river Bug in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the printing of a complete Bible in Polish. The book was…
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The Vizsoly Bible of 1590
On 20 July 1590 a printer named Bálint Mantskovit finished printing, in the small village of Vizsoly in the hills of northern Hungary, the first complete Bible in the Hungarian language. The…
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The Bible of Kralice and the Unity of the Brethren
Between 1579 and 1594 a small press installed in a fortified manor house in the village of Kralice nad Oslavou, in south-western Moravia, printed a Bible in six volumes in the Czech…
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The Reina-Valera Bible and the Bear Bible of 1569
In September 1569 a quarto volume of more than twelve hundred pages came from the press at Basel under the title La Biblia, que es, los sacros libros del Viejo y Nuevo…
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Luther’s German Bible of 1534
In 1534 the printer Hans Lufft of Wittenberg issued a complete Bible in German under the title Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch, “the Bible, that is, the whole Holy…
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The Complutensian Polyglot
On a January day in 1514 a French-born printer named Arnao Guillén de Brocar finished, in a workshop on the Plaza de San Diego in Alcalá de Henares, the first printed New…
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Biblical Scholars Who Championed Conscience
The Protestant Reformation is often narrated as a dramatic rupture driven by towering figures—Luther in Wittenberg, Zwingli in Zurich, Calvin in Geneva—whose doctrinal clarifications and institutional reforms reshaped Western Christianity. Yet the…
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Jan Hus and Bohemian History
Jan Hus stands as one of the most consequential figures in the history of the Czech lands. A university master, preacher, and religious reformer, he was executed as a heretic at the…
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Michael Servetus
In the turbulent religious landscape of the 16th century, few figures embody the collision of intellectual courage, scientific inquiry, and theological rigidity as starkly as Michael Servetus. Physician, theologian, cartographer, and relentless…
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Whispers in the Shires
England in the late 14th century was a powder keg. Decimated by the Black Death and financially drained by the Hundred Years’ War, the populace was increasingly resentful of a wealthy, landed…
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George Storrs
George Storrs (1796–1879) was a prominent American Christian preacher, writer, abolitionist, and theologian best known for championing conditional immortality (also called conditionalism) and influencing the Second Advent (Millerite) movement and later groups,…
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Henry Grew
Henry Grew (December 25, 1781 – August 8, 1862) was a British-born American Baptist minister, theologian, writer, and abolitionist whose independent biblical studies led him to reject several core orthodox Christian doctrines…
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Where did Tyndale learn Hebrew?
According to David Daniell and the broader consensus of Tyndale biographers, William Tyndale almost certainly learned Hebrew on the Continent (in Germany), after leaving England in 1524. Daniell is careful to stress…