The Story of the Bible: How It Came to Us

by Wansbrough, Henry

• ISBN13: 9781593250720
• ISBN10: 159325072X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Word Among Us Press

Summary

A leading international scripture scholar, Fr. Henry Wansbrough, OSB, provides answers to the many questions about how the bible came to us in its current form in this balanced, fast-paced, and entertaining account.

Author Biography

Henry Wansbrough, OSB, is a monk of Ampleforth Abbey, Yorkshire

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
How Did the Bible Come into Being?	p. 1
The Old Testament	p. 3
The Pentateuch	p. 3
The Prophets	p. 5
A Bible for Greek-speaking Jews and Christians	p. 6
The New Testament	p. 8
The Letters of Paul	p. 9
The Four Gospels	p. 10
The Text of the Bible	p. 15
Variations in the Books Accepted	p. 15
Variations in the Text of the Books	p. 16
Biographies of Manuscripts	p. 18
The Qumran Scroll of Isaiah	p. 18
The Masada Scroll of Ben Sira	p. 19
The Magdalen Papyrus	p. 19
Codex Vaticanus	p. 20
Codex Sinaiticus	p. 20
Codex Bezae	p. 21
Which is Correct?	p. 21
A Process of Selection	p. 23
The Gospel of Thomas	p. 25
A Collection of Sayings	p. 26
The Theology of the Gospel of Thomas	p. 27
Other Non-canonical Gospels	p. 30
Marcion Enters the Fray	p. 32
The Well-springs of Marcion's Thought	p. 33
Marcion's Bible	p. 35
Marcion's Legacy	p. 37
Tradition Versus Innovation	p. 38
A Second-century Kaleidoscope	p. 40
A Thousand-year Reign?	p. 41
The Gentile Influx	p. 41
St Jerome and the Vulgate	p. 47
Rome and the Revision of the Gospels	p. 49
Revision of the Old Latin Gospels	p. 50
Bethlehem and the Hebraica Veritas	p. 53
The Completion of the Vulgate: A Pandect	p. 58
The Bible in English	p. 61
Before the Norman Conquest	p. 63
The Norman Conquest	p. 64
Wyclif's Bible	p. 67
Gutenberg and the Invention of Printing	p. 72
William Tyndale	p. 74
Tyndale's Translation	p. 78
The Genius of Tyndale	p. 79
The King James Bible	p. 83
The English Bible in the Later Sixteenth
Century	p. 85
Coverdale's Bible (1535) - a complete English Bible	p. 86
Matthew's Bible (1537) - an annotated Bible	p. 87
The Great Bible (1541) - a parish Bible	p. 87
The Geneva Bible (1560) - a study-Bible for Protestants	p. 88
The Bishops' Bible (1569) - an unsuccessful compromise	p. 89
The Rheims-Douai Version (1582/1609) - a Bible for Catholics	p. 89
The King James Bible	p. 90
The Genesis of the Version	p. 90
The Impact of the King James Version	p. 93
The Missionary Movement	p. 96
Modern Versions of the Bible in English	p. 99
The Revised Standard Version and New Revised Standard Version	p. 101
The Jerusalem Bible and New Jerusalem Bible	p. 102
The New English Bible and Revised English Bible	p. 104
The Good News Bible and Today's English Version	p. 105
The New American Standard Bible	p. 106
New American Bible	p. 107
The Bible and Vatican II	p. 109
Sola Scriptura or Two Sources of Revelation?	p. 111
Vatican II: the Background to the Council	p. 114
The First Schema on the Bible	p. 116
The Revised Schema, Dei Verbum	p. 117
A New Focus	p. 117
Foundation Documents of the Church	p. 119
Inerrancy	p. 121
Use of the Bible	p. 122
Notes	p. 126
Bibliography	p. 131
Index	p. 135
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