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    The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and...
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    Bible (1535), and the second had been the Bishops' Bible (1568). In Switzerland the first generation of Protestant Reformers had produced the Geneva Bible...
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    instead of in a separate volume, the first to do so in English since the Geneva Bible (1560). It also contained a cross-referencing system that tied together...
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    Luther's Bible of 1534 that the Apocrypha was first published as a separate intertestamental section. The preface to the Apocrypha in the Geneva Bible claimed...
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    Protestant Bibles such as the Matthew's Bible (1537), Great Bible (1539), Geneva Bible (published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560), Bishop's Bible (1568), and...
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    completed in 1611. The Bishops' Bible succeeded the Great Bible of 1539, the first authorised bible in English, and the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland...
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  • justified by the marginal notes printed in Tyndale's New Testament and the Geneva Bible, for example. Another was the Roman Catholic doctrine of Magisterium...
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    #300). These first New Testament and Old Testament editions followed the Geneva Bible not only in their quarto format but also in the use of Roman type.[citation...
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  • "authorised version", known as the Great Bible, of 1539. Other early printed versions were the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560. This...
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    haunts" or a ghost; in the same passage, the Geneva Bible uses the word "feare", and the King James Bible uses the word "terror". The term[which?] was...
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    Tyndale Bible (1526) Coverdale Bible (1535) Matthew Bible (1537) Taverner's Bible (1539) Geneva Bible (1560) Bishops' Bible (1568) Douay–Rheims Bible (1582)...
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  • Study Bible (previously published as the New Geneva Study Bible) is a study Bible published by Ligonier Ministries. The Reformation Study Bible "aims...
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    Bible portal Judaism portal Christianity portal Coverdale Bible (1535) Matthew Bible (1537) Taverner's Bible (1539) Great Bible (1539) Geneva Bible (1560)...
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  • Perhaps the first edition of an English language Bible that qualified as a "study Bible" was the Geneva Bible published by Sir Rowland Hill in 1560; it contained...
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    Bible portal Judaism portal Christianity portal Tyndale Bible (1526) Coverdale Bible (1535) Taverner's Bible (1539) Great Bible (1539) Geneva Bible (1560)...
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    or Hull or Hall) of Soulton (c. 1495–1561), was the publisher of the Geneva Bible, thereby earning the title "The First Protestant Lord Mayor of London"...
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  • for the Coverdale Bible). The most notable of these were the Great Bible, the Bishops' Bible, and the Geneva Bible. The Great Bible, first published in...
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    portal Bible portal Judaism portal Christianity portal Tyndale Bible (1526) Matthew Bible (1537) Taverner's Bible (1539) Great Bible (1539) Geneva Bible (1560)...
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    English Bibles prior to 1629 contained the Apocrypha. Matthew's Bible (1537), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva Bible (1560), the Bishop's Bible (1568)...
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    Pillars of fire and cloud (category Theophanies in the Hebrew Bible)
    Beyerlin 1965, pp. 134, 156–7 dseverance (2019-10-15). "The Geneva Bible: The First English Study Bible | Houston Christian University". hc.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-17...
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    William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland...
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    English Bibles prior to 1629 contained the Apocrypha. Matthew's Bible (1537), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva Bible (1560), the Bishop's Bible (1568)...
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    Jehovah (category Deities in the Hebrew Bible)
    and appears in some other early English translations including the Geneva Bible and the King James Version. The United States Conference of Catholic...
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    headquarters of Sir Rowland Hill ("Old Sir Rowland") publisher of the Geneva Bible, (d.1561) because these two estates were bought by him in 1556 from Sir...
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  • Biblical allusions in Shakespeare (category Christian Bible)
    the Marginalia of the Geneva Bible” Notes and Queries 26(2) (Apr 1979): 113–4. Burnet, R. A. L. “Some Echoes of the Genevan Bible in Shakespeare and Milton”...
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  • of its use in three places of the Tyndale New Testament (1525), the Geneva Bible (1560/1599), and King James Version (1611). In that translation, the...
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    the first Bible published in British North America. It was prepared by English Puritan missionary John Eliot by translating the Geneva Bible into the Massachusett...
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    Bible (1537), the Great Bible (1539), the Geneva Bible (1560), the Bishop's Bible (1568), and the King James Bible (1611)". Robert Haldane criticised this...
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    versions (the King James Version, Geneva Bible, Revised English Bible, New Jerusalem Bible and New American Bible) have "Bethesda". The place is called...
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    messe of potage"; thence in the 1539 Great Bible and in the Geneva Bible published by English Protestants in Geneva in 1560. According to the OED, Coverdale...
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