Since it first appeared in 1911, Where We Got the Bible has gone through numerous printings and has been available in print almost continually ever since. The reader will soon discover the popularity of this book, for it covers the salient facts of the Bible’s history in a clear, easily understood manner. Here are discussed the sources for our canon of books of both the Old and New Testaments, along with vital information relative to the Bible in the life of the Church. A book certain to inform and please contemporary readers as it has those in former years. Contents Preface Introduction: Rome Hates the Bible? Some Errors Removed The Making of the Old Testament The Church Precedes the New Testament The Church Compiles the New Testament Deficiencies of the Protestant Bible The Originals and Their Disappearance Variations in Text Fatal to Protestant Theory Our Debt to the Monks Bible Reading in the Dark Ages Where Are All the Medieval Bibles Vernacular Scriptures before Wycliff Why Wycliff Was Condemned Tyndale’s Condemnation Vindicated By Posterity A Deluge of Erroneous Versions The Catholic’s Bible Envoy Biographical Note
valuable history of translation of scripture Henry Graham’s “Where we Got the Bible” provides a useful background of the history of Bible in translation. I was not aware that the Catholic Church has been translating scripture into vernacular languages since the eighth century. For these chapters alone the book is well worth its price.However, I had hoped that he would provide more information as to how closely Luther used the Jamnian or Palestinian canon, when deciding on his canon for the Old Testament. A main difference…
The truth about Catholics and the Bible As a child growing up in New Hampshire, a state with a large Catholic population, attacks against Catholics were few and far between. I never had to deal with them. However, once I moved to Georgia, I had to deal with constant falsehoods said about the True Church of Chirst Himself from Protestants who neither know what the complete Bible is, nor can they trace their faiths to the time of Christ. The Catholic Church can claim this.A common Protestant falsehood is that the…
Great reference book, corrects many erroneous opinions When I was converting to Catholicism I found this book to be a very concise reference book to explain the Catholic view of the scriptures and to provide substantive and historical arguments for this view. As an example, the idea of the ealry Roman Catholic church “keeping everything in Latin” to prevent common folk reading the scriptures is deftly and dismissively dealt with (all literate people read Latin at the time) along with other issues and objections both simple and complex…