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Significant Bible History is represented by artifacts in The Enduring Word Museum Exhibit.

God inspired men to write. (1450?) B.C. - A.D.(90?) Pottery 3000 B.C. - 100A.D.

Accurate copies in original languages. B.C. - Present Hebrew Manuscripts A.D.1100-1400, Complete Torah 1400, Greek Papyrus A.D. 250-350

Translations into other languages. B.C. – Present Latin Vulgate Leaf 1220, Ethioptic Leaf 1650

John Wycliff’s Middle English Translation. A.D. 1384 Acts and Monuments (Foxe’s) Leaf 1641 account of Wycliff's degradation.

Printed Bibles beginning with Gutenberg A.D. 1450 Gutenberg Bible Leaf 1450-1455

Erasmus - 1st. N.T. printed in Greek (and Latin). 1516 Erasmus Leaf 1522 (Used by Tyndale)

Martin Luther reads Erasmus (1516), 95 Thesis’ 1517 “Combined” Bible Leaf 1530

William Tyndale - 1st. N.T. printed in English(1525) translated much of O.T. before his martyrdom 1536. Book of Galations 1535 (1549)

Miles Coverdale -1st. complete Bible in English. 1535 1st. Ed. Leaf 1535

John Rogers - Matthew’s Bible, 1st. Authorized. 1537 “WT” 1st. Ed. Leaf 1537

Great Bible ordered by Henry VIII. 1539 1st. Ed. Leaf 1539

Geneva Bible -1st. verse numbers & Roman type. 1560 1st. Ed. Leaf 1560

Bishop’s Bible 1568 1st.Ed. Leaf 1568

Catholic English Bible - Rheims N.T. 1578 and Douay O.T. 1609-10. 1st. Ed. “General Title” 1578 and 1st. Ed. Leaves 1578 - 1610

King James Version. 1611 1st. Ed. 1611 “Great He” Bible