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Polyglot Bibles

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Polyglot Bibles. A ‘Polyglot Bible’ is a single Bible containing the text in several languages. Such Bibles were issued especially in the 16th and 17th cents. The most celebrated is the ‘Complutensian Polyglot’ (1522), which in parallel columns printed the OT in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, and the NT in Greek and Latin.

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Polyglot Bible

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Polyglot Bible edited in 1653–7 by Brian Walton (?1600–61), bishop of Chester, with the help of many scholars. It contains various oriental texts of the Bible with Latin translations, and a critical apparatus.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Polyglot Bible." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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