William James Heaton wrote Our Own English Bible: Its Translators and Their Work to examine the literary aspects of the Bible and the history surrounding its many versions. How did each translation develop? What previous versions affected them? How much did they influence the religious life of the nations that read them? Tracing the history of the Bible from the early days of Christian nomads and fragile manuscripts to the modern printing press, Heaton seeks to answer such questions. He delves into the lives of the translators—where and how they lived—and examines other trends impacting the Bible throughout history. He also reflects joyfully on the increasing availability of God’s Word, saying, “Our earliest Bibles on vellum must have each cost the price of a farm; later, they could be had for a cow; but now a morning’s milking . . . will procure for the milkman a first-class well-bound Bible in his own language.”
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