Bible Text Through History

c. 600 BCE

Paleo-Hebrew · scroll

c. 250 BCE – 70 CE

Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek · scroll

c. 250–100 BCE

Hellenistic Jewish

c. 125–100 BCE

Hebrew · scroll

c. 150–100 BCE

Hebrew · papyrus

c. 100 BCE

Samaritan

5th century CE

Greek · codex

5th century CE

Greek · codex

late 4th – early 5th c. CE

Greek · codex

2nd – 6th c. CE

Greek · fragment

5th – 7th c. CE

Syriac · parchment

late 2nd c. CE

Greek · fragment

c. 125–150 CE

Greek · papyrus

c. 175–225 CE

Greek · papyrus

c. 200–250 CE

Greek · papyrus

c. 200 CE

Greek · papyrus

2nd – 5th c. CE

Syriac Christian

c. 300–325 CE

Greek · codex

3rd – 4th c. CE

Egyptian Christian

c. 330–360 CE

Greek · codex

c. 400 CE

Greek / Latin (diglot) · codex

382–405 CE

Western Christian

c. 700 CE

Latin · codex

7th–10th c. CE

Jewish (Tiberian)

c. 930 CE

Hebrew · codex

1008 CE

Hebrew · codex

1382–1395

Pre-Reformation English

c. 1455

Vulgate print edition

1526 (NT), 1530s (OT portions)

Reformation English

1560

Reformed Protestant

1568

Church of England

1582 (NT), 1609–1610 (OT)

Roman Catholic

1611

Church of England

1611

Formal Equivalence

1971

Formal Equivalence

1978

Balanced

1982

Formal Equivalence

1996

Dynamic Equivalence

2001

Essentially Formal

2002

Paraphrase

2005

Balanced

2017

Balanced

2021

Formal Equivalence