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Will the Best Bible Please Stand Up?

Data Over Dogma

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The Origins of the English Bible

In 1535 we have the first printed full Bible that was published by Miles Coverdale and it is the work of William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale together. In 1604 Puritans who make it to the Americas are primarily trying to escape from under the thumb of monarchy so they take with them the Geneva Bible which at the time was the most popular English Bible translation but was also very anti-monarchical right? So there were a lot of marginal notes explanatory notes about how in support of this idea that you find in a few places in the Bible where our king should be the Lord shouldn't have any human king.

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