Christian History Issue #43: How We Got Our Bible

Ever wonder how Christian scholars knew which ancient books were to be regarded as Christian Scripture? Ever think about how the Bible came to be translated into English, and eventually the more familiar King James Bible? Ever wonder how we got our Bible? This collection of highly informative articles answers these and many other questions about how God worked through history to accomplish His will.

• The Crown of English Bibles
  The King James Version was the culmination of 200 turbulent years of Bible translation.
• Also:
  The Fiery Man behind the First English Bible
• What the English Bible Cost One Man
  The betrayal and death of William Tyndale.
• Also: Reading a Banned Book
  Tyndale's comfort to persecuted Bible readers
• The Difference a Translation Makes
  Early attempts to capture Psalm 23
• A Testament Is Born
  Could Matthew take shorthand?—and other intriguing reasons the New Testament may have emerged surprisingly early.
• Also: What Writings Must Christians Obey?
  Four definitions of the New Testament
• A Book that Almost Made It
  Excerpt from a popular writing that some wanted to include in the New Testament: The Shepherd of Hermas
• How We Got Our Old Testament
  The process was long and complex, and the result is still a matter of dispute.
• Also: More Than One Bible
  Christians still disagree over the content of the Old Testament
• Discovering the Oldest New Testaments
  The bizarre stories behind the great Greek manuscripts.
• Also: The Look and Feel of the First Bibles
• The Christian History Interview—From the Apostles to You
  After 2,000 years of transmission and translation, does the Bible still accurately convey the meaning of the original authors?
• The Gallery: Mavericks and Misfits
  The key players in the history of the Bible haven't necessarily been popular—or orthodox.
• How Bibles Were Made
  (from Gutenberg until presses were mechanized in the early 1800s)