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THE ENGLISH BIBLE AND IT’S DEVELOPMENTS
1. In what year was the King James Bible printed? ______A.D.
2. Christianity came to Britain in the ______century of our era.
3. In what year did the Roman garrison depart Britain? ______A.D.
4. The Book Armagh was written partly in ______and partly in ______.
5. What kind of Bible would pope Gregory send to Augustine? ______.
6. The translation of parts of the Bible into Anglo-Saxon were done with pen and ink. True or False
7. In what year did Caedom die? ______A.D.
8. Who was the greatest British scholar in the first half of the eighth century? ______.
9. The Lindisfarne Gospels were written around ______A.D. in Irish script.
10. What Catholic pope opposed the making of the Bible to the laity in their own language? ______.
11. In what year was the Norman conquest? ______A.D.
12. Who wrote the Ormulum Gospels in a poetical version? ______.
13. What did Richard Rolle do? ______.
14. What version was the first effort to place the entire Bible into the hands of the common people in their own language? ______.
15. The first translation of the Wycliffe version was made around ______A.D.
16. The Wycliffe Bible is the first complete Bible to be accepted by the Catholic church. True or False
17. In what year did Constantinople fall? ______.
18. In what year was the Gutenberg Bible printed ? ______A.D.
19. The Reformation began in Switzerland in 1519 A.D. True or False
20. Tyndale was born in ______A.D. educated at ______.
21. Tyndale could handle ______languages with ease.
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22. Who cried, “Lord, open the king of England’s eyes?” ______.
23. Eighty percent of the text of the King James Version is taken from ______.
24. Who was the first to separate the Apocrypha from the Old Testament and place it as an appendix? ______.
25. What Bible is the only one that appears in the Book of Common Prayer? ______.
26. Who wrote the preface to the Cranmer Bible? ______.
27. “This is the Bible appointed to the use of ______.”
28. The Matthew Bible was called The ______Bible.
29. The pages were 10 X 16 inches. True or False
30. The Great Bible was reprinted after 1569 A.D. True or False
31. In ______king Henry VIII issued an order that “no man or woman of what estate, condition or degree was to receive, have, take, or keep ______or ______New Testament.”
32. The most accurate version up to the Authorized Version of 1611 is ______
33. The Geneva Bible was first printed in England in 1560 A.D. True or False
34. What Bible was used by Shakespeare? ______.
35. The Geneva Bible was also designated as “______Book.”
36. What Bible was brought over on the Mayflower? ______.
37. The Geneva Bible was the first to be printed in ______type instead of the old ______letter.
38. What Bible was produced to bear the authority of the Church of England? ______
39. The Bishops Bible was named after ______.
40. The Bishops Bible and the King James Version were almost alike in translation. True or False
41. The Rheims Bible and the Douay Bible were both of Roman Catholic volumes. True or False 42. The English College was then located at ______.
43. The English College returned to ______hence, the name of the Douay Bible.
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44. This conference was convened for three days, January 14-16, 1604 and known as the ______.
45. Who was the president of Corpus Christi College? ______.
46. How many scholars worked on the King James Bible? ______.
47. Who was the greatest living Arabic scholar? ______.
48. How many rules were there, to bind the large numbers of revisers? ______
49. The King James Version was dependent upon earlier versions. The percentages are listed below:
______% to the days of Wycliff ______% from Tyndale ______% from Coverdale ______% from the Geneva Bible ______% from the Bishops Bible ______% from all other preceding versions ______% of the vocabulary of the KJV is unique
50. Thomas Huxley was a Christian believer. True or False
51. B.F. Westcott was a Hebrew scholar. True or False
52. F.J.A. Hort was a Greek scholar. True or False
53. There were many criticisms of the ______Version.
54. The American Standard Revised Version was placed on sale in ______1901 A.D.
55. Young’s Literal Translation of the Bible was done in the 18th century. True or False
56. The above translation was named after the British Bible scholar______.
57. J.N. Darby was a scholar among the Plymouth Brethren. True or False
58. The Twentieth Century New testament, the publication of which extended from ______to ______A.D.
59. Who wrote the New Testament in Modern Speech? ______.
60. Who wrote the New Testament: A New Translation? ______.
61. The last revision of the Moffatt Bible appeared in ______A.D.
62. Who published the Goodspeed Translations? ______.
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63. Who published the New Testament’ An American Translation? ______
64. The New Testament Revised Version was published in ______and the entire Bible in ______A.D.
65. The greatest condemnation of the Revised Standard Version was that Mary was not a ______.
66. In what year did The Berkley Version appear? ______.
67. The Holy Scripture According to the Masoretic Text: a New translation, was published by the ______publication Society in the year ______A.D.
68. The same society published in 1962, a new translation of the Pentateuch called______.
69. The New Testament in Modern Speech was written by ______.
70. The New English Bible was composed in Ireland in 1965. True or False
71. Who supervised the work of The New English Bible? ______.
72. One of the regrettable features of this Bible is that the Greek word “to prophesy” was translated “______.”
73. King James I, united Scotland and England together, as the British Empire. True or False
74. King James was an avowed homosexual. True or False
75. Who wrote a paper calling King James a homosexual? ______.
76. King James was a married man, a father, and in love with his wife. True or False