The Gustav II Adolf Bible (; officially: ''Biblia, Thet är: All then Helgha Scrifft, På Swensko. Effter förre Bibliens Text, oförandrat'') was published in 1618 during
's reign and was a revised version of
Gustav Vasa Bible
The Gustav Vasa Bible ( sv, Gustav Vasas bibel) is the common name of the Swedish Bible translation published in 1540–41. The full title is as appears on the right: ''Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko''. The translation ...
. One of the aims of the Gustav II Adolf Bible was to make the text more accessible to the reader and to add
verse numbers.
In this Bible,
Luther's four Antilegomena -
Hebrews
The terms ''Hebrews'' (Hebrew: / , Modern: ' / ', Tiberian: ' / '; ISO 259-3: ' / ') and ''Hebrew people'' are mostly considered synonymous with the Semitic-speaking Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still no ...
,
James
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguat ...
,
Jude and
Revelation
In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities.
Background
Inspiration – such as that bestowed by God on the ...
- were separated at the end of the table of content and labeled as "
Apocr(yphal) New Testament."
[{{Cite book, last=Metzger, first=Bruce M., title=The Canon of the New Testament, publisher=Clarendon Press, year=1989, isbn=0-19-826180-2, location=Oxford, pages=244–245, chapter=X. Attempts at Closing the Canon in the West, orig-year=1987]
See also
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Gustav Vasa Bible
The Gustav Vasa Bible ( sv, Gustav Vasas bibel) is the common name of the Swedish Bible translation published in 1540–41. The full title is as appears on the right: ''Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko''. The translation ...
*
Charles XII Bible
The Charles XII Bible ( sv, Karl XII:s bibel) was a Bible translation into Swedish, instigated by King Charles XI in 1686 to produce an updated and modernised version of the old translation from 1541, which was known as the Gustav Vasa Bible. Ch ...
References
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
1618 in Christianity
1618 books
Bible translations into Swedish
1618 in Sweden