The English Geneva Bible, published in completed form in 1560, was issued at a time when the Roman Catholic Church had banned all vernacular translations of the Bible. Building on the work of William ...

A piece of Taunton’s early Colonial history is about to go up for auction in Northern Ireland. Elizabeth Pole's copy of the Geneva Bible is being put up for sale in Belfast on Tuesday, Jan. 10, by ...

The return of a rare Bible to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is more than a homecoming — it is a reminder that the Geneva Bible has been part of this country’s religious heritage since the ...

Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old an ...

The Geneva Bible that recently sold for more than $24,000 at an auction in Belfast, Northern Ireland, might have once belonged to Elizabeth Pole. Or it might not have. The Bible was auctioned in ...

A pilgrim, generally, is someone who embarks on a religious voyage. This is true with the English colonists of North America who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The reason why the Pilgrims left ...

Sam Bussan says he was almost ready to split for the day. It was late one September afternoon, and Bussan, a junior at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, was getting ready to leave the school’s archives ...

Sam Bussan says he was almost ready to split for the day. It was late one September afternoon, and Bussan, a junior at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, was getting ready to leave the school’s archives ...

The 400-year-old Geneva Bible sold for £20,000 on Tuesday A 400-year-old Bible taken to the New World by the founder of a Massachusetts town has sold for £20,000 at an east Belfast auction. It sold ...

The smell of old books is thought by some to be one of life's greatest pleasures, but there are limits - we reckon this 400-year-old Bible could smell pretty funky! The centuries-old religious text is ...