A Collection of Historic Bibles on Display

We love the many translations available to the modern reader of the Bible. But have you ever thought about the trials and tribulations that others have gone through to produce Bibles in languages that locals can read? One man has a traveling display of historic Bibles translated into various languages.

"People have taken the Bible for granted because they've always had one or can easily get one if it is lost. Because of its availability we've lost a sense of its importance," he said. "That's what prompted me to gather this collection."

Among the Bibles to be displayed at the SBC exhibit:

-- A Latin Vulgate that was handwritten on vellum around A.D. 1230 and served as the basis for John Wycliffe's translation.

-- The last of five editions of Erasmus' Greek New Testament, printed in A.D. 1535.

-- William Tyndale's New Testament dated 1552 which served as the basis for all subsequent English versions for the next 400 years. Many of these were confiscated and burned...