Test Questions
1. What are the three most prominent of the editions of the Bible in English?
2. What are the two original languages of the Old Testament? The original language of the New Testament?
3. What is a special characteristic of the Hebrew language?
4. What is meant by the Septuagint?
5. Who was the great translator of the Bible into Latin? By what church was it officially adopted?
6. Into what language akin to Hebrew was the Bible translated, and through the agency of what people?
7. What versions were mainly in use in the early Christian church?
8. Who gave us the first English Bible, and when?
9. Who first translated the Bible into English from the original Bible languages?
10. Tell the story of Tyndale's version.
11. What other editions were prominent at about that time?
12. What gave Bible popularity a setback?
13. What Bibles were published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth?
14. In whose reign and by whom was the Authorized Version produced?
15. Why was a revision deemed necessary?
16. In what year did the Revised Version of the New Testament appear? The Old Testament revision?
17. What body of men prepared the Revision?
18. Who prepared the American Standard Revised Version, and in general how does it differ from the Revised Version?