First American Bible

MJ. Smith

Starting a new thread as the topic is new:

A further interesting detail is
that the first Bible printed in the United States of America was the
King James Version.

Really? I thought it was Eliot's Algonquin Bible. I certainly could have it wrong as dates aren't often my strong suit.

But for English, I found the following at http://www.faithreason.org/biblehis.htm.The wartime issue marked in blue is, I think< the Bible to which you were referring. I marked those that specifically say they are the 80 book canon with red arrows.

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Thanks - informative to compare http://www.faithreason.org/biblehis.htm entries (noticed couple KJV with apocrypha printed in America in 1791 and 1846, after 1782 KJV printing without apocrypha) with "How to Choose a Bible Version: An Introductory Guide to English Translations"  logosres:htchsbibvrs;ref=Page.p_25;off=724

     Revisions of the King James Version continued throughout the first 350 years of its existence. Some passages are still in bad need of revision. A modern printing of the King James Version has the expression ‘straining at a gnat’ (Matthew 23:24), whereas the 1611 edition correctly translates it ‘straining out a gnat’. A further interesting detail is that the first Bible printed in the United States of America was the King James Version. In America however, during those early years, the Apocryphal books were never included as they were in Great Britain.

Thomas, R. L. (2000). How to choose a Bible version : An introductory guide to English translations (25). Fearn, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications.

 

Appears R. L. Thomas (in Great Britain) was not aware of "Eliot's Algonquin Bible" in America => http://www.greatsite.com/ancient-rare-bible-leaves/eliot-1663-leaf.html  Searching Logos Library for Algonquin Bible finds an article in "Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations": logosres:tans7700;art=427

427 First Bible Printed In America

 The first Bibles printed in America were not printed in English but in the language of the Algonquin Indian tribe according to an editorial in the Lebanon, Oregon, Express. 

 The editorial stated that in 1663 John Eliot, the pastor of a church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, paid out of his own pocket to have 1,500 Bibles published. Using an Indian he had rescued from the cruelty of a farmer, Eliot taught him to speak, read, and then write English. In return, the Indian, named by Eliot, Job Neustan, taught Eliot the language and customs of the Algonquins. Together, Eliot and Neustan completed the Bible in four years. 

—Pastor’s Manual

 

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