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ARTFL Bible Project

• King James English
• Luther German
• Louis Segond French
• Latin Vulgate

We maintain a highly selective Bible collection in the Information Center (IC) and Lane Room. There are many more Bibles in Green Stack and SAL, in Dewey and the LC classification. An overview of the various versions of the Bible is found in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol.2: "Bible, IV," 1967 [IC BX841.C25]; The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol.6, pp. 787- [IC BS440.I63] ; and in articles in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3 ed. [IC BR95.O8 1997]. Other works include:

• The Catholic Encyclopedia. 1917: "Bible, Editions" and "Bible, Versions."
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.
• Catalogue of English Bible Translations. . . 1991. [IC Z7771.E5.C43]
• Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of The English Bible, 1525-1961. 1968. [IC Z7771.E5.H47].
• History of the Bible in English. 3rd ed. 1978. [GREEN STACK BS455.B74]. Includes notes on the Good News Bible and other versions of the 1970s.
• Cambridge History of the Bible. 3 vols. 1963-70. [GREEN STACK BS445.C26]

Related CD-ROM The evolution of the English Bible: from papyri to King James surveys the evolution of biblical text and images over the course of sixteen centuries. Contains several hundred images that trace the roots of the King James Bible, showing both its direct ancestors and other related religious works dating from 119 to 1611 CE.

Abbreviations for Bible Versions in the King James Tradition
For a listing with abbreviations for other English bibles go the the Bible Translation page and to A Concise Concise History of the English Bible on the American Bible Society (ABS) site.
There are several Bible search sites on the web offering text for different versions; these include Bible Gateway and ABS.

KJV; AV	King James Version or "Authorised Version"	1611
RV	(British) Revised Version	1881-1885
ASV	American Standard Version	1901
RSV	Revised Standard Version	1946-1952, 1957	By 1977 the RSV was authorised for use by Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches
NIV	New International Version	1969-70
NRSV	New Revised Standard Version	1989

• Bible. Poyglot. Biblia Sacra Polyglotta. 6 vols. [LANE ROOM BS1 1654a f]. The Samaritan (Hebrew); Chaldaic; Latin (Vulgate); Ethiopic; Greek; Syriac; Arabic & Persian texts. Both Hebrew and Samaritan versions are given when there are two separate versions.
• Bible. Poyglot. The Hexaglot Bible. 6 vols. [LANE ROOM BS1 1901]. Old Testament: Hebrew, Septuagint (Greek); Vulgate, KJV; Most Approved French Version. New Testament: Greek; Syriac; Vulgate; and the English, German and French versions as for O.T. above.
• Bible. O.T. Polyglot. The NIV triglot Old Testament [LANE BS701.1981]
• Bible. N.T. Greek. 1841. The English Hexapla (N.T.) [LANE ROOM BS2025 1841 L6]. Original Greek text with translations: Wyclif's Bible (1380); Tyndale's Bible (1534); Cranmer's Bible, The Great Bible (1539) ; The Geneva Bible (1557) ; Anglo-Rhemish Bible (1582), i.e., the Rheims Version; KJV (1611).
• Bible. N.T. English. The New Testament Octapla. Eight Versions . . . N.T. in the Tyndale-King James Tradition. [LANE ROOM BS2025 1962 W4]. Tyndale's Bible (1535); The Great Bible, 2nd ed. (1540): Coverdale's ed.); The Geneva Bible, 2nd ed. (1562); The Bishop's Bible (1602) ; Rheims N.T. (1582); KJV; ASV; RSV
• Bible. N.T. English. The New Testament in four versions. [LANE ROOM BS2025 1963 C5]. King James, Revised standard, Phillips modern English, New English Bible.
• Bible. English. Authorized. 1886. The Parallel Bible. [IC BS188.A3 1886 O84]. The holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues: Being the authorised version arranged in parallel columns with the revised version.
• Bible. N.T. English. Tyndale. 1526. The New Testament. [LANE ROOM BS140 1976]. Reprint.
• Bible. English. Coverdale. 1535. The Coverdale Bible [LANE ROOM BS145.5.H64 1975]. R eprint of 1535 ed.; introduction & historical notes.
• Bible. English. 1560. Geneva. The Geneva Bible. [LANE ROOM BS170 1560a]. Popularly called the Breeches Bible. This is a facsimile of the 1560 ed., with marginal notes.
• The Interpreter's Bible . . . [IC BS491.2.I65]. AV and RSV, with extensive notes & commentary.
• Bible. English. Anchor Bible. 1964. The Anchor Bible. [IC BS192.2.A1 1964 G3]. A new translation by Catholic, Protestant & Jewish scholars. For background see D.J.R. Bruckner, "Editing the Anchor Bible," NYT, 11 April 1982, p.10, available fulltext from Academic Universe.
• Bible. English. Authorized. 1967. The New Scofield Reference Bible. [IC BS185 1967 N4]. KJV
• Bible. English. New English. 1970. The New English Bible. 3 v. [IC BS192.A1 1970]. NEB
• Bible. N.T. Greek. 1976. The New International Version interlinear Greek-English New Testament : the Nestle Greek text with a literal English translation by Alfred Marshall, and a foreword by J. B. Phillips, also a marginal text of the New international version. [IC BS1965 1976]
• Bible. English. Today's English. 1978. Good News Bible [IC BS195.T6 1978]. TEV
• Bible. English. New Revised Standard. 2001. New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books. 3rd. ed. [IC BS195.N4 2001] RSV
• Bible. English. New Revised Standard. 1993. The Cambridge annotated study Bible [IC BS191.5 .A1 1993]
• Bible. N.T. English. Inclusive. 1995. The New Testament and Psalms: an inclusive version [LANE ROOM BS2085 1995.N38 1995]. Oxford University Press. Adaptation of the NRSV, avoiding offensive sexist or racist metaphors: "Our Father-Mother in Heaven, hallowed be your name." Julia Evelina Smith Parker's The Holy Bible ... translated literally from the original tongues, (Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1876) is the first complete Bible translation known to be by a woman. It is a literal version, always translating a Greek or Hebrew word with the same word wherever possible. Of a different character is Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, c1895-98 [several editions in Green Stack]
• Bible. English. 2000. Today's parallel Bible. [IC BS125.B5 200] New International Version, updated New American Standard Bible, updated edition King James Version, New Living Translation.
• Bible. English. New Revised Standard. 2003. The Holy Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books. [IC BS191.5 .A1 2003 O94 2003]

Catholic Versions of the Bible

• SUL medieval page Biblia Latina
• Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1969. Biblia sacra. Juxta Vulgatam versionem. Rec. et brevi apparatu instruxit Robertus Weber [Robert Weber]. [LANE ROOM BS75 1969]
• Bible. Latin. Vulgate. Die Gutenberg Bibel. [LANE RM. Z241.B58 1968 F].
• Latin. Nova Vulgata. 1986. Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum editio. Concilii Vaticani II ratione habita ; iussu Pauli PP. VI recognita; auctoritate Ioannis Paulis PP. II promulgata. Bible. [LANE ROOM BS75 1986]
• Bible. N.T. English. Rheims. 1582. In English Hexalpa and New Testament Octapla, above
• Bible. English. Douai. 1899. (Challoner's Bible). The Holy Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. [LANE ROOM BS180 1899b]. First published 1749-50. Fulltext of the 1899 edition and its background from the Douay-Rheims Bible online.
• Bible. English. Douay. 1950. The Holy Bible: translated from the Latin Vulgate with annotations. [IC BS180 1950b]. The Douay version of the Old Testament. The Confraternity ed. of the New Testament
• Bible. English. 1956. Knox. The Holy Bible; a translation from the Latin Vulgate in the light of the Hebrew and Greek originals. Authorized by the Hierarchy of England and Wales and the Hierarchy of Scotland. [Translated by Monsignor Knox]. [GREEN STACK BS195.K5]
• Bible. English. New Jerusalem Bible. 1985. The New Jerusalem Bible [IC BS195.J4 1985]
• Bible. N.T. English. 1965. Revised Standard. The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Revised standard version, Catholic ed. [LANE ROOM BS2091.A1 1965]
• Bible. English. New American. 1971. The New American Bible [GREEN STACK]

Masoretic Text

• Bible. O.T. English. Jewish Publication Society. 1973. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text [LANE ROOM BS895.J4 1973]. English version, including an encyclopedic dictionary and notes on Jewish holidays.
• Bible. O.T. Prophets (Neviim). English. Jewish Publication Society. 1978. The Prophets=Neviim=Neviim; a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text: second section. [LANE ROOM BS1286.A3 1978]
• Bible. O.T. Hagiographa. English. Jewish Publication Society. 1982. The Writings=[Ketuvim]=Kethubim: a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text: third section. Kethubim. [LANE ROOM BS1308.A3 J48 1982]
• Bible. O.T. Hebrew. 1997. Torah, Nevi’im u-Khetuvim = Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 5th ed. [LANE ROOM]
• Bible. O.T. Hebrew. 1999. [Tanakh] = JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh: the traditional Hebrew text and the new JPS translation. 2nd ed. [LANE ROOM BS895.J4 1999]
• Bible. O.T. Pentateuch. English. Jewish Publication Society. 2005. The commentators' Bible: the JPS Miqra'ot gedolot : Exodus. [LANE ROOM]

Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha*

• Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. 1983 [LANE ROOM BS1830.A3 1983]
• The Apocryphal New Testament [IC BS2832.J3]
• The Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha of the O.T. in English. 2 vols.[ LANE ROOM BS1692 1913]
• Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Merkabah tradition

See also New Testament Apocrypha [GREEN STACK BS2832.S3], which includes the Gospel of Thomas. The Gnostic Gospels [GREEN STACK BT1390.P3] gives a good account of these matters; for other materials on the Nag Hammadi texts search Socrates under "Gnosticism".

Last modified: February 4, 2008