The English Bible and its developments D-42 1 Student Name_________________________________________________________________ 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. The English Bible and its developments D-42 2 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. The English Bible and its developments D-42 3 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? _______________________________________. The English Bible and its developments D-42 4 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 .