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