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Greek ta biblia `the books' the sacred
book of the Jewish and Christian religions.
The Hebrew Bible, recognized by both Jews and
Christians, is called the Old Testament by
Christians. The New Testament comprises books
recognized by the Christian church from the
4th century as canonical. The Roman Catholic
Bible also includes the Apocrypha. The first
English translation of the entire Bible was
by a priest, Miles Coverdale, 1535; the
Authorized Version or King James Bible 1611,
was long influential for the clarity and
beauty of its language. A revision of the
Authorized Version carried out 1959 by the
British and Foreign Bible Society produced
the widely used Revised Standard Version. A
conference of British churches 1946
recommended a completely new translation into
English from the original Hebrew and Greek
texts; work on this was carried out over the
following two decades, resulting in the
publication of the New English Bible (New
Testament 1961, Old Testament and Apocrypha
1970). Another major new translation is the
Jerusalem Bible, completed by Catholic
scholars in 1966. Missionary activity led to
the translation of the Bible into the
languages of people they were trying to
convert, and by 1975 parts of the Bible had
been translated into over 1,500 different
languages, with 261 complete translations.