Introduction
Before Christ
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500-600
600-700
700-800
800-900
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1100-1200
1200-1300
1300-1400
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1600-1700
1700-1800
1800-1900
1900-2000
2000-Present
Index
Bibliography
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2000 - Present
Text History |
World History |
2001
The English Standard Version (ESV) is published as an update of the RSV (1971). |
September 11th and the destruction of the World Trade Center in NYC signifies an American War on Terror that would continue to the present.
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In relatively difficult cases where wording seemed difficult, the translators and transliterators would shift their writing to the use of Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Greek, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other lesser known texts. For the most part, however, the ESV was built from a foundation of the RSV rather than anything original.
2002
Eugene Peterson publishes The Message as an "everyday language" Bible.
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2003
Archibishop James Ussher's Annals of World History is translated into English for the first time in approximately 350 years. |
US Invasion of Iraq and the second Iraq War commences on March 20.
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2004
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The Plymouth Brethren (1825) become politically active by creating tracts and literature for worldwide evangelism.
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2005
The New English Translation (or .NET) is derived from 20 scholars whose main intent was to put a new Bible on the internet available for free download. |
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2006
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Israel invades Lebanon in a fight against Hezbollah.
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