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
Gustav II Adolf
Gustavus Adolphus (9 December N.S 19 December">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Old Style and New Style dates">N.S 19 December15946 November Old Style and New Style dates">N.S 16 November] 1632), also known in English as ...
's reign and was a revised version of
Gustav Vasa Bible
The Gustav Vasa Bible () is the common name of the Swedish Bible translation published in 1540–41. It was a translation of Martin Luther's German Bible. The full title is as shown in the image: ''Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / p ...
. 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
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,
James
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People
* James (given name)
* James (surname)
* James (musician), aka Faruq Mahfuz Anam James, (born 1964), Bollywood musician
* James, brother of Jesus
* King James (disambiguation), various kings named James
* Prince Ja ...
,
Jude and
Revelation
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- 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
*
Gustav Vasa Bible
The Gustav Vasa Bible () is the common name of the Swedish Bible translation published in 1540–41. It was a translation of Martin Luther's German Bible. The full title is as shown in the image: ''Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / p ...
*
Charles XII Bible
The Charles XII Bible () was a Bible translations into Swedish, 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 Vas ...
References
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Bible translations into Swedish
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