Christian scripture across its major English translations and illustrated editions -- the King James Version, scholarly variorum editions, Dore's engravings, and the Greek New Testament.
No single book has shaped more of the world's literature, law, art, and moral vocabulary than the Bible, a collection of texts written across roughly a thousand years by dozens of authors in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, later assembled, translated, and re-translated by successive religious and scholarly communities. The editions gathered here reflect that long history of transmission itself: the King James Version's Jacobean English shaped the sound of English prose for centuries after; scholarly variorum editions track the countless small disagreements between ancient manuscripts; and Gustave Doré's engravings gave the 19th century its most enduring visual imagination of the text's central scenes.