Truthbetold Ministry - Geneva Bible 1560

This publication contains Geneva Bible (1560) translation. It has 74,387 references. It contains 2 different formats of the Bible.

It includes Geneva Bible formatted in a read and navigation friendly format, or the Navi-format for short. It also includes the Geneva Bible, tailored Text-To-Speech (tts) software technology.

How the general Bible-navigation works:

• A Testament has an index of its books.
• The TTS format lists books and chapters after the book index.
• The Testaments reference each other in the book index.
• Each book has a reference to The Testament it belongs to.
• Each book has a reference to the previous and or next book.
• Each book has an index of its chapters.
• Each chapter has a reference to the book it belongs to.
• Each chapter reference the previous and or next chapter.
• Each chapter has an index of its verses.
• Each chapter in TTS reference same chapter in the Navi-format.
• Each verse is numbered and reference the chapter it belongs to.
• Each verse starts on a new line for better readability.
• In the TTS format the verse numbers are not shown.
• Any reference in an index brings you to the location.
• The Built-in table of contents reference all books in all formats.

The combination of Geneva Bible and its navigation makes this ebook unique. The navigation is solid and perfect for the quick lookup. Whether you are listening to a speech and need to keep up with the Bible references or just read the Bible, this is built for both.

Note that Text-To-Speech (TTS) support varies from device to device. Some devices do not support it. Others support only one language and some support many languages. The language used for TTS in this ebook is English.

The following information is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress (1678). It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower (Pilgrim Hall Museum and Dr. Jiang have collected several bibles of Mayflower passengers). The Geneva Bible was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War, in the booklet "Cromwell's Soldiers' Pocket Bible".

This version of the Bible is significant because, for the very first time, a mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible was made available directly to the general public which came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids (collectively called an apparatus), which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible. Because the language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous, most readers strongly preferred this version to the Great Bible. In the words of Cleland Boyd McAfee, "it drove the Great Bible off the field by sheer power of excellence".

The Geneva Bible followed the Great Bible of 1539, the first authorized bible in English, which was the authorized bible of the Church of England.

During the reign of Queen Mary I of England (155358), a number of Protestant scholars fled from England to Geneva, Switzerland, which was then ruled as a republic in which John Calvin and, later, Theodore Beza, provided the primary spiritual and theological leadership. Among these scholars was William Whittingham, who supervised the translation now known as the Geneva Bible, in collaboration with Myles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and William Cole; several of this group later became prominent figures in the Vestments controversy. Whittingham was directly responsible for the New Testament, which was complete and published in 1557, while Gilby oversaw the Old Testament.

The first full edition of this Bible, with a further revised New Testament, appeared in 1560 (this publication), but it was not printed in England until 1575 (New Testament) and 1576 (complete Bible). Over 150 editions were issued; the last probably in 1644. The very first Bible printed in Scotland was a Geneva Bible, which was first issued in 1579. In fact, the involvement of Knox and Calvin in the creation of the Geneva Bible made it especially appealing in Scotland, where a law was passed in 1579 requiring every household of sufficient means to buy a copy.

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