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  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  The 
  Christopher 
  Sauer 
  Bible. 
  The 
  Bible 
  printed 
  by 
  Christopher 
  

   Sauer 
  in 
  Germantown, 
  Pa., 
  in 
  1743 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  edition 
  of 
  the 
  

   Scriptures 
  published 
  in 
  America 
  in 
  a 
  European 
  tongue. 
  Its 
  issue 
  

   was 
  announced 
  in 
  Bradford's 
  " 
  Weekly 
  Mercury 
  " 
  for 
  April 
  1, 
  1742, 
  

   and 
  in 
  Franklin's 
  " 
  Pennsylvania 
  Gazette 
  " 
  for 
  April 
  31, 
  1741. 
  This 
  

   German 
  edition 
  of 
  the 
  Bible 
  follows, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  exceptions, 
  the 
  ver- 
  

   sion 
  of 
  Luther. 
  It 
  contains 
  the 
  Old 
  and 
  the 
  New 
  Testament 
  and 
  

   the 
  Apocrypha, 
  including 
  the 
  third 
  and 
  fourth 
  Ezra 
  and 
  the 
  third 
  

   Maccabees. 
  Each 
  chapter 
  is 
  preceded 
  by 
  a 
  summary 
  of 
  its 
  con- 
  

   tents, 
  and 
  references 
  to 
  parallel 
  passages 
  are 
  noted. 
  

  

  Spanish 
  Old 
  Testament. 
  Amsterdam, 
  Holland, 
  1661 
  (5421). 
  The 
  

   first 
  edition 
  of 
  this 
  translation 
  was 
  printed 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  

   sixteenth 
  century. 
  It 
  bears 
  the 
  title: 
  "The 
  Bible 
  in 
  the 
  Spanish 
  

   language, 
  translated 
  word 
  for 
  word 
  from 
  the 
  Hebrew, 
  examined 
  by 
  

   the 
  Inquisition, 
  with 
  the 
  privilegium 
  of 
  the 
  Duke 
  of 
  Ferrara." 
  It 
  

   is 
  therefore 
  generally 
  known 
  as 
  the 
  Ferrara 
  Bible. 
  The 
  copies 
  of 
  

   this 
  translation 
  are 
  divided 
  into 
  two 
  classes 
  — 
  one 
  appropriate 
  for 
  

   the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  Jews, 
  the 
  other 
  suited 
  to 
  the 
  purposes 
  of 
  the 
  Chris- 
  

   tians. 
  The 
  translation 
  is 
  extremely 
  literal, 
  and 
  the 
  translator 
  has 
  

   indicated 
  with 
  an 
  asterisk 
  the 
  words 
  which 
  are 
  in 
  Hebrew 
  equivocal 
  

   or 
  capable 
  of 
  different 
  meanings. 
  

  

  Dutch 
  Bible. 
  Printed 
  at 
  Dort 
  (Dordrecht), 
  Holland, 
  in 
  1741, 
  

   with 
  illustrations 
  and 
  marginal 
  comments. 
  This 
  version 
  of 
  the 
  

   Bible 
  was 
  ordered 
  by 
  the 
  Synod 
  of 
  Dort 
  (1618-19), 
  which 
  ap- 
  

   pointed 
  three 
  theologians 
  for 
  the 
  translation 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  Testament 
  

   and 
  three 
  for 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Testament, 
  besides 
  two 
  revisers 
  from 
  

   each 
  province. 
  The 
  work 
  of 
  translation 
  was 
  finished 
  in 
  1635. 
  

  

  Eliot's 
  Indian 
  Bible. 
  Facsimile 
  reprint. 
  Washington, 
  D. 
  C, 
  

   1890. 
  John 
  Eliot, 
  "the 
  apostle 
  of 
  the 
  Indians," 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Eng- 
  

   land 
  in 
  1604 
  and 
  received 
  his 
  education 
  at 
  Cambridge. 
  In 
  1631 
  he 
  

   removed 
  to 
  America 
  and 
  settled 
  at 
  Roxbury, 
  Massachusetts, 
  as 
  min- 
  

   ister, 
  where 
  he 
  remained 
  until 
  his 
  death 
  in 
  1690. 
  He 
  became 
  inter- 
  

   ested 
  in 
  the 
  conversion 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  New 
  England, 
  whom 
  he 
  

   believed 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  descendants 
  of 
  the 
  lost 
  tribes 
  of 
  Israel, 
  and 
  deter- 
  

   mined 
  to 
  give 
  them 
  the 
  Scriptures 
  in 
  their 
  tribal 
  tongue, 
  which 
  was 
  

   the 
  Natick 
  dialect. 
  He 
  completed 
  the 
  translation 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Tes- 
  

   tament 
  in 
  1661 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  entire 
  Bible 
  in 
  1663. 
  It 
  was 
  printed 
  

   in 
  Cambridge, 
  Massachusetts, 
  by 
  Samuel 
  Green 
  and 
  Marmaduke 
  

   Johnson, 
  " 
  ordered 
  to 
  be 
  printed 
  by 
  the 
  Commissioners 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  

   Colonies 
  in 
  New 
  England, 
  At 
  the 
  Charge 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  Consent 
  of 
  

   the 
  Corporation 
  in 
  England 
  for 
  the 
  Propagation 
  of 
  the 
  Gospel 
  

   amongst 
  the 
  Indians 
  in 
  New 
  England." 
  Eliot's 
  Indian 
  Bible 
  was 
  

   the 
  first 
  ever 
  printed 
  in 
  America, 
  and 
  the 
  entire 
  translation 
  is 
  stated 
  

   to 
  have 
  been 
  written 
  with 
  one 
  pen. 
  Eliot 
  also 
  published 
  an 
  Indian 
  

  

  