The preservation booklet and completed studies
Booklet source notes
All references used in the free preservation guide, with descriptions and source links.
The 1611 translators’ own preface
Read why they used earlier translations and added notes beside some verses.
Scrivener’s Greek New Testament
Read how Scrivener put together a Greek text to match the wording behind the King James Bible.
Handwritten copies & page images
Codex Sinaiticus Project
See photos of this old Bible, read a typed copy of its words and learn its history.
Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
Search a library of clear photos of handwritten Bible copies.
New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room
Find records and pictures of handwritten Greek New Testament copies.
Printed Bibles & the history of their wording
Erasmus, Novum Instrumentum omne (1516)
See the title page of Erasmus’s first printed Greek New Testament.
Erasmus and the Comma Johanneum
Henk Jan de Jonge’s study of Erasmus and the heavenly-witness words in 1 John 5.
The Johannine Comma: textual history
A research paper on the heavenly-witness words by Rodrigo Barbosa Galiza and John W. Reeve.
English Bible history
The 1611 King James title page
See the title page of the first edition.
King James Bible: 1 John 5:7
Modern and 1611 spelling displayed side by side.
The King James Bible: A Short History
Read the opening pages and contents list of David Norton’s book. This is not the whole book.
Early writers & how they used Bible verses
Victor of Vita and AD 484
Read the Latin words, an English excerpt and a discussion of the African bishops’ statement of faith.
Early Christian Writings
An index to translations and introductions for many early Christian texts.
Archaic Mark research file
University of Chicago investigation
Read how tests showed that manuscript 2427 was a modern fake, not an ancient Bible copy.