The English Geneva Bible, published in completed form in 1560, was issued at a time when the Roman Catholic Church had banned all vernacular translations of the Bible. Building on the work of William ...

The Geneva Bible that recently sold for more than $24,000 at an auction in Belfast, Northern Ireland, might have once belonged to Elizabeth Pole. Or it might not have. The Bible was auctioned in ...

Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 46, No. 2 (SPRING / PRINTEMPS 2023), pp. 71-106 (36 pages) This article addresses two questions: "When did the King James Bible gain a ...

The copy of the Geneva Bible was printed in 1615 A 400-year-old Bible which was taken to the New World by the founder of a town in Massachusetts is set to go under the hammer in east Belfast. The copy ...

The 400-year-old Geneva Bible sold for £20,000 on Tuesday A 400-year-old Bible taken to the New World by the founder of a Massachusetts town has sold for £20,000 at an east Belfast auction. It sold ...

The smell of old books is thought by some to be one of life's greatest pleasures, but there are limits - we reckon this 400-year-old Bible could smell pretty funky! The centuries-old religious text is ...

A 1615 Geneva Bible stolen two decades ago from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh in a long-running theft scheme has been recovered from a Dutch museum, the F.B.I. announced this week. The Bible was ...

A pilgrim, generally, is someone who embarks on a religious voyage. This is true with the English colonists of North America who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The reason why the Pilgrims left ...

Churchgoers are praying for the safe return of a £3,000 antique bible after it was swiped by burglars – and replaced with a copy worth 99p. The cherished, “extremely rare” Geneva Breeches Bible is ...

Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old and New Testaments that ...