Over the course of history, the world’s best-selling book has been released in many editions, some priceless! And as one of America’s oldest institutions, American Bible Society—founded in 1816—has a large Scripture library just waiting to be explored. In this video series, discover the secrets of… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of a Chinese New Testament once gifted to China’s last emperor, Puyi. Similar to a previous New Testament presented to Puyi’s predecessor, the Empress Dowager, this copy has an ornate silver cover. It… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of two New Testaments published by Robert Estienne, who was also known by his Latin name: Robertus Stephanus. Estienne was a renowned French academic in the 16th century, but his sympathy for the… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of the first English Bible printed in New York. In 1782, Robert Aitken printed the English Bible in Philadelphia. He struggled to sell all 10,000 copies, and the endeavor nearly bankrupt… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of the Douay-Rheims Bible, which was the first Latin Vulgate Catholic Bible translated into English. With Protestant Queen Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne in 1558, Catholics in England became a persecuted group. Many… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of a small book that is among the most precious in American Bible Society’s collection: William Tyndale’s English Pentateuch. The Pentateuch (also known as the Torah in Judaism) includes the first five books of… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of the 1782 Aitken Bible, which was the first English Bible printed in America. Up until the Revolutionary War, English-speaking colonists in America imported their Bibles from England. Since 1611, the… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of the first printed English Bible, commonly known as the Coverdale Bible. Printed in 1535, this Bible was translated by Miles Coverdale. Coverdale was the first British translator to translate the… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of La Biblia del Cántaro, a 1602 Spanish revision of the first Spanish Bible printed in a single volume known as “the Bear Bible.” The Bear Bible was translated by Casiodoro… Read More

In this episode of “Liana’s Favorite Books,” Dr. Liana Lupas takes you on a tour of a 1517 Malermi Bible, which is the Italian translation of God’s Word. In 1471, printers in Italy used printing techniques pioneered by Johannes Gutenberg approximately two decades earlier to print… Read More