The Vance Bundle

Description

The Vance Bundle Includes:

The Making of the King James Bible: First published in 1568, the Bishops’ Bible was issued in its last edition in 1602. The first of the fifteen rules given for the guidance of the King James translators stated that the Bishops’ Bible was to be followed “and as little altered as the truth of the original will permit.” Rule fourteen further specified certain English translations to be used when they agreed “better with the text than the Bishops’ Bible.” The Authorized Version was both a revision of the earlier English Bibles and a translation from the original languages, all based on the Bishops’ Bible.

Archaic Words and the Authorized Version: As suitable for reading as it is valuable for reference, this book provides an explicit and comprehensive examination of every word in the Authorized Version of the Bible that has been deemed archaic, obsolete, antiquated, or otherwise outmoded. The result is both a fascinating and encyclopedic study of words–their meaning, derivation, usage, and significance. The thesis of this seminal work is that the Authorized Version is no more archaic than daily newspapers, current magazines, and modern Bible versions. To further supplement the work and substantiate the underlying thesis, considerable reference is made not only to a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, but also to four contemporary Bible versions. This book is unique in that it seeks neither to criticize nor correct the text of the Authorized Version. Extensively documented with over 5,300 footnotes, the book contains twenty-four chapters and twelve appendixes, with a preface, introduction, epilogue, and bibliography.

The Origin of the Chapters and Verses in the Bible: There are 1,189 chapters in the Bible divided into 31,102 verses. How the chapters and verses came to be is the topic of this study. Their origin will help us to better understand and appreciate their uses. Although the modern division of the Old and New Testaments into chapters began in the thirteenth century, the division of the Old Testament into what can be considered verses actually preceded this. The division of the chapters of the New Testament into verses did not occur until the sixteenth century. Also discussed are the arrangement of the chapters and verses in the Wycliffe Bible, the Tyndale New Testament, the Coverdale Bible, the Matthew Bible, the Taverner Bible, the Great Bible, the Coverdale Latin-English diglot, the Whittingham New Testament, the Geneva Bible, the Bishops’ Bible, the Authorized Version, the Rheims New Testament, the Douay Old Testament, the Complutensian Polyglot, Latin Bibles, Hebrew Bibles, and the Greek New Testaments of Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, and Elzevir.