The Forbidden Book - History of The Bible

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The Forbidden Book Trailer
https://youtu.be/JJg6A_XArs8

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This older video provides a very good broad history of the blood that has been shed to bring the light of God’s Word to the common man. Every Christian should be familiar with this history so the Bibles we all enjoy today are not taken for granted. This is also a great educational tool for parents to share with their older children.

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The Forbidden Book: History of the Bible (1986).

The Forbidden Book is now a DVD presentation examining the history of the Word of God in English. It is hosted by Dr. Craig Lampe, a Bible historian and International Director of the World Bible Society. Dr. Lampe owns the Rare Bible Showroom in Arizona and holds a virtual monopoly over rare and antique Bibles. His collection even includes a 1410 Wycliffe Manuscript valued at just under $3 million. It is one of the rarest Bibles in the world. He has a Coverdale Bible, Great Bibles, sells leaves of the Geneva Bible, and, amazingly enough, leaves from the Gutenberg Bible - the first book ever published. If you happen to have one of these complete Bibles sitting in your attic, you should have it insured for about $100 million

This DVD is an hour-long presentation on the history of the English Bible. The viewer will meet most of the historical figures responsible for bringing us the Bible as we know and love it today: Wycliffe, Hus, Gutenberg, Colet, Erasmus, Tyndale, Luther and so on. He will see some of the locations important to the history of the Bible, such as the Wittenberg door and Martin Luther’s study. He will learn about the earliest English translations, in the Old World and in the New.

There are many amazing facts worked into the presentation. Lampe shows a scroll that is 1000 years old, and tells the viewer that it is word-for-word the same as the text of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were written a full millennium before. He describes how the Bible went from being available in 500 languages in 400 AD to being available in only 1 only 100 years later. He talks about a 110 year period in America during which 5000 editions of the Bible were produced.

In short, it is quite an informative and enjoyable video. The production quality is a little bit uneven (the host can be a bit awkward at times (what do you do with your hands when you’re on camera?) and there are places where the camera shakes a little bit during panning shots. But on the whole the quality is quite good. It is a bit strange that the only information given about who produced this video are the name of the host and, at the very end, his web site (C.P.M.). There are no further credits. I know from the information given on various e-commerce sites that it is produced by New Liberty Videos, a company that does not seem to have an Internet presence.

Being reminded of the blood that was shed to bring the Bible to common folk like myself, makes me consider just how flippantly I treat the Scriptures. Do I really have a sense of how privileged I am to have not just one Bible but an entire stack of them in many outstanding translations? And do I thank Yahweh for the faithful men and women who gave their lives that I can have unlimited access to His Word? Do I really understand how unique my situation is? I suspect I do not often enough consider these things.

Before I close, I will warn that the host is quite harsh towards the Roman Catholic Church and their role in the history of the English Bible. And well he should be, as the papacy worked tirelessly to eradicate any person who dared to present the Scriptures to the common man. Of course the fears of the Church were founded, for when Scripture became accessible, the light quickly broke forth and spread throughout the world.

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CONTENT


MOVIE

The Forbidden Book: History of The English Bible


(OTHER LANGUAGES - WITH SUBTITLES)


SERBIAN SUBTITLE

ZABRANJENA KNJIGA – ISTORIJA BIBLIJE

MOVIE


The Forbidden Book: History of The English Bible
https://youtu.be/xswLdL4KC-g



The Forbidden Book - History of The English Bible
https://youtu.be/GtO-7xN26ME

SERBIAN SUBTITLE


Zabranjena knjiga
https://youtu.be/NQA_8peRi-U



Zabranjena knjiga - Martyrs
https://youtu.be/NQA_8peRi-U?t=40m32s

(click link 40m32s)



ZABRANJENA KNJIGA – ISTORIJA BIBLIJE
http://vimeo.com/11463256


ZABRANJENA KNJIGA – ISTORIJA BIBLIJE

Ovaj stariji dokumentarni film pruža jasan uvid u široku istoriju krvi koja je prolivena da bi se donela svetlost Božje Reči na narodni jezik. Svaki hrišćanin treba da bude upoznat sa ovom istorijom, tako da Bibliju koju svi danas možemo da koristimo ne uzimamo zdravo za gotovo kao se njena dostupnost podrazumeva. Ovo je takođe sjajan obrazovni materijal za roditelje da podele sa svojom starijom decom.

The martyrs
https://youtu.be/GtO-7xN26ME?t=40m32s