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The [[Bible]] is a collection of books, poetry and letters that were written over hundreds of years. The [[Old Testament]] books were written in [[Hebrew]] and compiled into a collection before the time of [[Christ]]. The [[New Testament]] books were written in [[Greek]] after Christ's resurrection and over the following centuries were compiled into a single collection. Although the Bible was initially translated into the languages of the people, for example, Latin for the church in Italy, it wasn't until the Protestant reformation that widespread translation of the Bible into many languages, such as German and English really began to occur.
===Formation of Bible===
===Early Translations===
===English Translations===
The efforts of translating the Bible from its original languages of Greek and Hebrew into English can be traced back to the end of the 7th century, however it was not until the fourteenth century that a complete translation was finished. There have been hundreds of subsequent translations into English, some of the best known include the archaic [[King James Version]] and the modern English [[New International Version]].
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