Italian Bible (ITAD885)

Overview

This is the 1885 revision of the Giovanni Diodati Bible, the foundational Italian Protestant Bible translation. Giovanni Diodati (1576-1649) was a Genevan-born Italian Calvinist theologian who produced the first Italian Bible translation directly from Hebrew and Greek sources in 1607. [1] His translation became the standard reference for Italian Protestantism, analogous to the King James Version in English. It follows the Textus Receptus. The Diodati Bible went through revisions in 1641, 1712, 1744, 1819, and 1821, with this 1885 edition being among the later revisions. [1] The text is in the public domain. A more substantial critical revision, the Riveduta Luzzi by Waldensian pastor Giovanni Luzzi, followed in 1916-1924. [2]

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