We know the Bible is an ancient book... but just how old is it?
-- the oldest parts? 3,500 yrs old
-- the most recent parts? 2,000 yrs old
The Bible is actually a library comprised of 66 books.
- How many are in the Old Testament? 39
- How many are in the New? 27
The New Testament was originally written in what language? Greek (koine- common)
Who first translated the Bible into English in 1382? John Wycliffe
Who was arrested, garroted and burned at the stake by the King of England for his work in translating the Bible into English? William Tyndale
In what year did a new English version of the Bible come out.... commissioned by the King and translated into "the vulgar tongue" of the day, so that all men might have a translation that they could easily understand? 1611
A discovery made in 1947 in the caves at Qumran became known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and strengthened our confidence in the reliability of the text. They showed that the text has been accurately preserved down through the ages for us today.
The King James version of the Bible is the best selling book of all time.
