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Salem Quarter NewsSUMMER 2010
A tale of politics, smuggling, and murder

The Bible in English: 1384 to 1660

June 13 Quarterly Meeting at Mickleton

Tom Etherington will present the history of the English translations of the Bible he learned during his three year project cataloging archival Bibles at Haverford College.

See…
facsimile copies of Wycliffe's manuscript Bible of 1380 AD, Tyndale's printed New Testament of 1526, the Thomas Matthews Bible of 1537, the Geneva Bible of 1560, and a full-size, 21 lb. facsimile of the 1611 King James Pulpit Bible.
See…
a real Geneva Bible (the translation used most by early Quakers) with a Salem Quarter connection.
Feel…
a 400-year-old page from a first edition of the King James Bible.
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