BIBLE CHRONOLOGY
• c. 1400-400 B.C. Books of the Hebrew Old Testament written
• c. 250-200 B.C. The Septuagint, a popular Greek translation of the Old Testament, produced
• A.D. 45-85? Books of the Greek New Testament written
• 90 and 118 Councils of Jamnia give final affirmation to the Old Testament canon (39 books)
• 140-150 Marcion's heretical "New Testament" incites orthodox Christians to establish a NT canon
• 303-306 Diocletian's persecution includes confiscating and destroying New Testament Scriptures
• c. 305-310 Lucian of Antioch's Greek New Testament text; becomes a foundation for later Bibles
• 367 Athanasius's Festal Letter lists complete New Testament canon (27 books) for the first time
• 397 Council of Carthage establishes orthodox New Testament canon (27 books)
• c. 400 Jerome translates the Bible into Latin; this "Vulgate" becomes standard of medieval church
English Versions From Latin
• c. 650 Caedmon, a monk, puts Bible books into verse
• c. 735 >Historian Bede translates the Gospels
• 871-899 King Alfred the Great translates the Psalms and 10 Commandments
• 950 The 7th-century Lindisfarne Gospels receive English translation
• 955-1020 Aelfric translates various Bible books
• c. 1300 Invention of eyeglasses aids copying
• c. 1325 Both Richard Rolle and William Shoreham translate psalms into metrical verse
• 1380-1382 John Wycliffe and associates make first translation of the whole Bible into English
• 1388 John Purvey revises Wycliffe Bible
• 1455 Gutenberg's Latin Bible-first from press
English Versions From Greek
• 1516 Erasmus's Greek New Testament, forerunner to the Textus Receptus used by KJV translators
• 1525 William Tyndale makes the first translation of the New Testament from ...
