About “Geneva Bible”
The Geneva Bible is an early modern English Protestant Bible translation, known as the Breeches Bible. It was the first complete English Bible translated entirely from the original languages and the first to be printed in Roman type for easier reading. Published 22 years before the Douay Rheims Bible and 51 years before the King James Version, it was widely used in the late 16th century by English Protestants. Figures such as William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, and John Donne used it. It was also taken to America on the Mayflower, and its frontispiece influenced Benjamin Franklin's design for the first Great Seal of the United States. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1560
- Latest edition
- 1560 · ISBN 9781598562125