1560 Works - 1560 Architecture, 1560 Books, Geneva Bible, Magdeburg Centuries, Frederiksborg Palace, Scots Confession, Lamport Hall (Paperback)

Chapters: 1560 Architecture, 1560 Books, Geneva Bible, Magdeburg Centuries, Frederiksborg Palace, Scots Confession, Lamport Hall, de Gestis Meni de Saa, 1560 in Literature, Book of Discipline. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without forme and voyde, and darkeness was upon the depe, and the Spirit of God moved upon the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light" and there was light.Genesis 1:1 in other translations The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into the English language, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of the 16th century Protestant movement and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress. It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower, it was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War. What makes this version of the Holy Bible significant is that, for the very first time, a mechanically-printed, mass-produced Bible was made available directly to the general public which came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids (collectively called an apparatus), which included verse citations which allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible which acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indexes, as well as other included features all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first st...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=17340