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Arabic

1. Pentateuch (of Saadias [Rabbi Saad Ghidgaon]). Constantinople: 1546 (in Hebrew characters); Paris: 1645 (in Arabic characters); London: 1657.
2. Juynboll (of Leyden), ed. translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch.
3. Anonymous Jew from N. Africa. translation of Pentateuch. c. 13th century. Printed in Europe 1622.
4. Anonymous Jew from Alexandria, Egypt. Septuagint Prophets. c. 10th century. Paris: 1645; London: 1567.
5. Abdallah Ibn el-Fadl. Septuagint Psalter. c. 12th century. Aleppo: 1706; London: 1725
6. Version of the Psalter. Genoa: 1516; Rome: 1614.
7. Version of the Psalter (apparently translated from Syriac). Shuweir, Mt Lebanon: 1610.
8. Gospels. c. 7th century. Rome: 1591.
9. New Testament. Holland: 1616; Paris: 1645; London: 1657.

Danish

1. New Testament. 1524.

Dutch

English

1. Tyndale, William. Gospel of Matthew. (Chapters 1–25.) Cologne: 1525.
2. ―. The Newe Testament. Worms: Schöffer, 1526.
3. ―. The Five Books of Moses. Antwerp: 1530. (Pentateuch.)
4. ―. The Five Books of Moses. Antwerp: 1534. (Pentateuch with revised Genesis.)
5. ―. Jonah.
6. ―. Joshua – 2 Chronicles.
7. Whittingham, William. Geneva New Testament. 1557.
8. Martin, Gregory. New Testament. Rheims: 1582.
9. Aitken, Robert. King James Version. New Testament. Philadelphia, PA: 1777.

French

1. Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples. New Testament. Paris: 1523.

German

1. Luther, Martin. “September Testament.” 1522.

Greek

1. Desiderius Erasmus. New Testament. 1516.

Hebrew

1. 1477-1487, Parts of the Hebrew Bible appear at Jewish presses in Italy.
   1. First Hebrew printing of the Pss. published in Bologna (1477) 
   2. Editio princeps of the Pentateuch (Soncino, 1482) 
   3. Hagiographa (Naples, 1486/87) 
   4. Pentateuch (Faro, Portugal: 1487) 
2. 1488, first printed chumash, Soncino press in Lombardy:
   • First complete Hebrew Bible. Soncino, Italy: Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino, 1488. 
3. 1491–1493. Second complete Hebrew Bible. Naples?, Italy: Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino, 1491, 1493. 
4. 1494. Third edition of the complete Hebrew Bible. Brescia: (Joshua Soncino’s nephew) Gershon ben Moses Soncino, 1494.
   • Basis for Luther’s ed. of OT into German. 
   • Considered the Hebrew Textus Receptus. 
5. 1528, Pagninus (Santi Pagnini), a formal trans. from Heb. to Latin. 
6. 1516–1517. The First Rabbinic Bible, Hebrew with full vowel points and accents. Ed. Felix Pratensus. Published by Daniel Bomberg (see below). 
7. Complutensian Polyglot. Complutensia, Spain: Cardinal Ximenes, 1514-1517, pub. 1520. 
8. 1524–1525, 2nd Ed. Rabbinic Bible. Ed. by Jacob ben Chayyim. Pub. by Daniel Bomberg, Mikraot Gedalot, i.e. “Rabbinic Bible”. Venice, Italy.
   1. Basis for BH1, BH2, and KJV. 
   2. Considered the Hebrew “Textus Receptus” 
   3. This ed. of Masora remains the standard to this day. 
9. 1535. Sebastian Münster’s literal Latin trans. 
10. 1575–1579. Immanuel Tremellius w/ son-in-law, Fancisco Junius, trans. literally from Heb. and Syr. Served as an aid to the KJV revisers. 
11. Kittel, Rudolph, ed. Biblia Hebraica. 2 vols. Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung J. C. Hinrichs, 1905–1906. (BHK, BH¹)
    1. Based on Bomberg. 
    2. Basis for BH2 
12. Kittel, Rudolph, ed. Biblia Hebraica. 1913. (BHK, BH²)
    1. Based on Bomberg. 
13. Kittel, Rudolph, Peter Kahle. eds. Biblia Hebraica. (BHK) Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1937. (BH³)
    1. Based on Leningrad Codex. 
    2. Basis for BHS. 
14. Elliger, Karl, Wilhelm Rudolph, et al. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (BHS)
    1. Based on BH3. Published in parts (15 fasiscles), 1968–1976. 1 vol., pub. 1977. 
    2. Revised, reprinted 1997. 
15. Biblia Hebraica Quinta. (BHQ)
    1. Published in parts, 2004–present. 1st completed ed., pub. 2020. 
16. Hebrew University Bible Project. (HUBP) 1956–present. Jerusalem.
    1. Based on Aleppo Codex. 
17. Hendel, Ronald, ed. Oxford Hebrew Bible (or Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition; HBCE) 1956–present. Oxford. 
    • Fox, Michael V. Proverbs: An Eclectic Edition with Introduction and Textual Commentary. 2015.

Italian

Portuguese

1. João Ferreira d’Almeida. New Testament. Amsterdam: 1681.

Russian

1. New Testament. 1821.

Spanish

Swedish