The Bible in English
Chadwyck-Healey's
The Bible in English
at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
Twenty-one versions of the Bible. In addition to the thirteen complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah.
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Scope and Contents
The Bible in English is an invaluable resource for researchers in every period of English literature and language. It brings together, in a single database, a carefully selected and representative collection of major versions from the entire thousand-year history of the English Bible. The versions have been chosen specifically to meet the needs of scholars of English literature and the history of the English language.
For scholars of English literature, particular attention has been given to the Renaissance period. All the most significant texts from Tyndale to the King James Bible, including the highly influential Coverdale, Bishops' and Geneva Bibles, appear. For researchers in the development of the English language, texts from the whole chronological range are included, with particular attention to those versions that most closely represent the contemporary state of the language. Many of the versions, including the New English and Good News Bibles, are complete, but special emphasis is given to versions of the New Testament, which due to the availability of the West Saxon versions, is the focus for many historians of the language. For biblical and theological scholars, texts from the Protestant, Roman Catholic and non-conformist traditions are represented.
You can search across all versions, a selection of them or within a single edition. You can display different versions of the same text on screen at the same time, for easy comparison. A separate index is included for each edition, providing an instantly accessible word list for every version.
Electronic access to so many different editions, in a consistently structured and encoded database, opens the Bible to examination as never before. You can study its influence on thousands of authors and follow the changing English language over hundreds of years in the same text.