A REFORMATION GUIDE TO SCRIPTURE
The Prologues from the Geneva Bible 1560
Banner of Truth. 128 pages. £5.50
ISBN 978 1 848 710 917
450 years ago, a group of English Protestant scholars exiled to Geneva during the terrible reign of Mary Tudor completed a translation of the Bible. Dedicated to the new (and Protestant) Queen Elizabeth I (‘whom God has made as our Zerubbabel’), it went through more than 150 editions, was the first Bible printed in Scotland and the version taken to America by the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower.
Banner have done us a service by reprinting the Prologues, typically just a page or two of introduction for each Bible book, with an introduction and footnotes giving the meaning of unfamiliar words (e.g. that ‘grens’ are ‘snares or traps’). This beautifully produced little book contains a wealth of insights into how the Reformers understood the Bible.
