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To: BenKenobi
which is why Gutenburg printed the King James Bible, so it would spread far and wide across Europe.

Ahem. The KJV Bible was in English. Nobody spoke English in Europe in the 1500s, at least of any note. The language of the English court was French from William the Conqueror until nearly 1400. Less than 1% of Europe had any idea what English was, much less spoke it.

Do you have a clue as to what languages the first Bibles that Gutenberg published were in?

40 posted on 06/29/2010 5:24:26 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr

Oh, oh, oh. Pick me! Pick me!
Latin.


45 posted on 06/29/2010 5:38:18 PM PDT by Jaded (I realized that after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F)
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To: MarkBsnr
"Ahem. The KJV Bible was in English. Nobody spoke English in Europe in the 1500s, at least of any note."

Be that as it may, by the 1520's those printing presses were cranking out a ton of Tyndale english New Testament translations and flooding Endland with them. So much so that Cardinal Wolsey put a price on William Tyndale's head and stated burning the bibles in giant bonfires on the public square.

72 posted on 06/29/2010 7:01:27 PM PDT by circlecity
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