P014 A Short History of the English Bible.

P014 A Short History of the English Bible.

1494. A Hebrew Bible was printed at Brescia, in Italy. This was the edition which Luther used for his German translation.

1503. The first Hebrew grammar was published at Basle, Switzerland. It was prepared by Conrad Pellican.

1506. Reuchlin’s Hebrew Lexicon, with a grammar, appeared.

1518. Bomberg’s first Rabbinical Bible was published in Venice.

1522. The Complutensian Polyglot contained a Hebrew Grammar and Lectionary.

1525. The second Rabbinical Bible, also by Bomberg, was published in Venice.

GREEK.

1360. At the solicitation of Boccaccio the Republic of Florence founded a chair of Grecian literature. The first lecturer was Leo, or Leontius Pilatus.

1458. Greek was taught in the University of Paris.

1476. The first Greek grammar, that of Lascaris, was published in Milan, Italy.

1478. The first Greek lexicon, by Craston, was published.

1491. Greek was first taught in Oxford University, by William Grocyn, who had studied in Italy.

1509-1514. Erasmus of Rotterdam lectured on Greek in Cambridge.

1516. Erasmus published the first Greek Testament, in folio, at Basle, Switzerland; the second edition was issued in 1510[sic], and the third in 1522.

1517. Bishop Fox founded Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and established a lectureship of Greek.

1519. Cardinal Wolsey founded a chair of Greek in Oxford.

1522. The Complutensian Polyglot contained the Greek Testament.

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(FN1) That is, Holy writings. This was one of the three great divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures, and consisted of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Solomon’s Song, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the two Books of Chronicles. It was also called Ketubim, or Writings.

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