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[edit] POV

"This was the Bible read by William Shakespeare, by John Donne, and by John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress. It was the Bible that was brought to America on the Mayflower and used by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War. Because the language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous, most readers preferred this version strongly over the Bishops' Bible, the translation authorised by the Church of England under Elizabeth I."

POV-o-rama. I'm glad the author has the psychic power to read the minds of dead authors and tell me what they did and didn't read.

Anon Faultfinder strikes! The Geneva Bible was massively circulated in both English printed and imported editions during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Bishops' Bible was not reprinted very often. If those authors read an English bible, the Geneva Bible is what they would have read. In fact, Shakespeare, Donne, and Bunyan quote the Geneva Bible. -- Smerdis of Tlön 22:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, from the mouth of an idiot, it is pretty ovious the they read the Geneva Bible when the directly quote it. Oh, and another idiot added a link to his website claiming that it was the entire Geneva Bible with pictures, but when you go to the link, it was nothing what it claimed:(http://reactor-core.org/geneva1560.pdf).

The idiot who put up the link to reactor core simply wrote the link incorrectly, but that site really does have what it claims. http://reactor-core.org/geneva/ --207.156.196.242 14:31, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Ahh, I see that it does now. When I originally look, I browsed the website to try to fix the link before I removed it. After I couldn't find the page I assumed that it was someone just linking for the extra traffic. I cleaned up the links section, Facsimiles -> Text -> Articles.

"used by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War." -- that sounds pretty surreal, suggesting that Cromwell actually 'used' the Bible in warfare, for the thumping of royalist skulls or something :) 130.60.142.65 16:17, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page layout issue

I just moved the frontispiece image tag lower, since it was interfering with the clomn thing showing the two excerpts, they were overlaying each other and unreadable. Now, however, the image runs down beside the links section, which I think appears rather sloppy. This might be avoided if the Genesis 1 and John 3 quotes were not also stacked up on the right side. I am wondering why they are there at all, since without memorized familiarity with other versions they "mean" nothing. Could, or should, they be moved down below the other comparison column thing and presented with the Bishop's or KJ version of the same text? human 23:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)