Geneva Bible, 1589. Main Library – Special Collections – Rare BS170 1589. A copy of this edition in the British Library is also available online through LOUIS (search “Geneva Bible electronic resource ...

Freedom of religion, as a fundamental belief, is the root of the cause as to why the Pilgrims left England. The book that led the way has a lot of history as well. Let's take a closer look.

Elizabeth Pole's copy of the Geneva Bible is being put up for sale in Belfast on Tuesday, Jan. 10, by Bloomfield Auctions. ... the first full edition of which appeared in 1560.

The Geneva Bible was the first mechanically printed, mass-produced Bible available to the public. It was first published in 1560 - half a century before the King James Bible.

Although we call the KJV the “authorized version,” there is no proof of it having been authorized, as had been the Great Bible (1539), Geneva Bible (1560) and the Bishop’s Bible (1568).

The English Geneva Bible, published in completed form in 1560, was issued at a time when the Roman Catholic Church had banned all vernacular translations of the Bible. Building on the work of William ...