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We visited Moon's Rare Books and learned the entire history of the English Bible. Reid Moon, owner of this amazing book store, share with us the story of such iconic historical figures as William Tindell, Johannes Gutenberg, and Martin Luther. He shows some of the authentic artifacts in the store, including one over 4000 years old. He shares the history of the Geneva Bible and the Kings James Bible and shows original copies. We were amazed learning about the bible and hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did.
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[@FluentWorlds]

This was an amazing visit to Moon's Rare Books in Provo, Utah. We hope you enjoy learning about the history of the bible and seeing these incredible ancient artifacts.

[@rogermetzger7335]

With the encouragement of my parents, I had memorized over 150 Bible passages before I was ten years old. I have given people Bibles I bought specifically for the purpose of giving them away. A friend of mine and I invited our neighbors to attend a concert (violin, piano and organ) to raise money for the American Bible Society and I have tried to encourage biblical literacy in the United States for over forty years. That, however, is only part of the story. I’m also a student of history so there were some things that “jumped out at me” from this video.
“The very first book that was ever printed on a printing press: the Holy Bible.”
The method of printing developed by Johann Gutenberg was a “giant leap” for the distribution of information in Europe but printing had existed in the Far East for several hundred years before Gutenberg was born. Moveable type was used in Korea as early as the thirteenth century A.D. Printing by the use of multiple characters being carved into a single piece of wood had been done in China even before that.
Gutenberg’s “invention” was not movable type per se but the use of METAL moveable type that could be mass-produced. It was, indeed, a “giant leap” in the direction of printing efficiency.
Whether the 1455 Gutenberg Bible should be considered the “first” book to be printed depends on how we define the word “book”. It would be more accurate to say that the Gutenberg Bible was the earliest “full-scale work”(1) or the earliest “major book”(2) printed in Europe using movable type.
“The Bible had only been in Latin for the previous thousand one hundred years...”
Presumably, this is just an oversight but it would be more accurate to say that the Bible had only been in Latin “in western Europe” for the previous thousand one hundred years. It had been available in eastern Europe and the Middle East in Greek ever since the Septuagint translation was completed in the sixth century A.D.
If the golden rule means anything, it means this: If I wouldn't want my taxes to be employed to promote a religious textbook with which I disagree, I should not favor anyone else’s tax money being employed for the purpose of promoting the religious textbook that is the primary source of my religious beliefs and practices.
That principle is VERY different from the Mayflower Pilgrims who “just (wanted) to be able to worship freely as they chose.” They wanted substantially more than that. They wanted to create a society where they could impose their religious beliefs and practices - and particularly their religious prohibitions - as a condition of living in their concept of a “new Jerusalem” in North America.
It should also be noted that there is a considerable difference between encouraging people to read literature that has had considerable influence in Western civilization - maybe even memorizing some key passages vs. using that literature to promote religious beliefs and practices.
If less than 2% of U.S. citizens are Muslims, if less than 2% are LdS (Mormons), if about 1% of U.S. citizens are Buddhists and if less than 1% of U.S. citizens are Hindus, it might be tempting to assume that public schools should teach the Bible as literature thirty times as much as they teach the Qur’an, the Book of Mormon, the Tripitaka, Mahayana Sutras, Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Vedas (hymns) Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads as literature. On the other hand, if we base our decisions on the assumption that we wan’t a citizenry who are able to function in the wider world, we might want biblical literacy to be considered only 50% more important than encouraging students to get acquainted with the Qur’an and only ten times as important as getting acquainted with the sacred texts of other world religions.
(1) Johann Gutenberg's Bible is probably the most famous Bible in the world. It is the earliest full-scale work printed in Europe using moveable type. - The British Library (www.bl.uk) article Gutenberg Bible
(2) The Gutenberg Bible was the earliest major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. - Wikipedia article Gutenberg Bible

[@user-w8jhtre23]

​@@lukesanders7194 what do you read?

[@zimbabs]

Thank you for mentioning the Greek Septuagint !!

[@rogermetzger7335]

@@user-w8jhtre23 I’m sorry I failed to notice your question when you posted it ten months ago so here is my belated reply:
When my dad was a boy in the second decade of the twentieth century, his father (my grandfather) read his Bible aloud to the whole family every day - from the German translation by Martin Luther.
I memorized Bible passages from the King James translation when I was a boy in the 1940s and ‘50s so it is easier for me to find those passages using the concordance in a King James Bible. The King James translation is in the “public domain” so I can quote from it without worrying about copyright infringement.
If you request it, I can make a list of the translations my wife and I have in hard copy but it is easier now to type the chapter and verse and the name of a translation or paraphrase into a search engine in order to compare translations without even getting out of my chair.
I’m not and never was methodist but I’ve been attending a weekly Bible study at a nearby methodist church building lately. Most weeks, I’ve taken my copy of a translation from Hebrew into English that was undertaken by Hebrews and published by the Jewish Publication Society of America (which now goes by the shorter “Jewish Publication Society”). Last week, I took my wife’s Contemporary English Version. (I think of that version as being more of a paraphrase than a translation but she considers it a translation.)
In his book, Your Bible and You, Arthur S. Maxwell devotes an entire chapter to the question, “Which Version Is Best? The chapter ends with this advice:
“So if your Bible happens to be a copy of the King James Version of 1611, or the Douai Version of 1582, or the Revised Standard Version of 1952, or a modern version such as that of Weymouth, Moffatt, Goodspeed, Knox, or Phillips, never mind. Read on. Read all the versions you can obtain, You will find great good in every one of them. But be sure as you read to keep listening for the voice of the Author. For through this Book, in all its multiplicity of versions and translations, God has chosen to speak to human hearts in all the world.”
When our children were little, I sometimes read Bible stories to them from the King James translation but I more often read them stories from The Bible Story - also by Maxwell. It was published in the 1950s and has sold more than 1.5 million copies so you should be able to find it for sale used on the Internet. While written specifically to be read to young children, it doesn’t insult the intelligence of an adult.

[@tomroach6275]

AMAZING! Thank you Nathan & Reed!!

[@fjalling]

Brilliant lesson. Thank you both so much. Subbed.

[@francisnjuguna6765]

I really appreciate this. Thank you very much

[@conchitamarcial]

Amazing!!! I like a lot this video!

[@intrestedparties]

This was rad af

[@cristianandreica128]

Mate, i had no idea that Mesopotamia was inhabited by Egyptians 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@rconger24]

Am still holding out for Jenny Geddes' prayer stool!

[@laurenstanford8853]

I’ve been trying to tell ppl in order to understand the true meaning of the Bible you have to go way back. I’m learning Hebrew. It’s not hard but I’m sooooo slow. My goal is to be able to read a good portion of the Bible.

[@fjalling]

Me too. I'm grateful for the dedication of Cepher Publishing bringing the true meaning of the Ivryt /Hebrew through in the English translation as my learning of it is too slow. They include all the books, and separately publish related texts.

[@lunarrn]

What resource are you using to learn Hebrew? I’ve looked into this but it can be so confusing as to where to go to learn

[@sjames1012]

Place is awesome

[@Saunders7]

Wow

[@jerrywade3599]

His tiktok is gold.

[@samehkhayat7695]

Cuneiform and Babylon were in Modern day Iraq (Mesopotamia) not Egypt!!!

[@tanyafomenko6482]

👁👁

[@محترفيالاعلاميات-ي5ز]

J ai un rare livre juif écrit avec l eau d'or. هذا الكتاب قديم جدا ومكتوب بالارامية. إذا كان يومكم الأمر. المرجو التواصل