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Can anybody answer all these questions correctly ?
I will send a prize to the first person who does so.

1) When was the the Bible canon (includes New Testament) ratified ?

2) When was the Gutenberg printing press invented ?

3) When did the first PRINTED copy of the Bible appeared ?

EXACT dates please. The winner needs to send me his/her postal address.
 
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Sure hit us with some history. You haven't done anything else with this or the parables thread you started.

It is kind of sad. A masturbation thread gets over 25,000 reads, and homosexuality gets many threads, each with thousands of reads. Threads on the parables, the kingdom, the law, etc. added together don't even get a thousand.
 
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Can anybody answer all these questions correctly ?
I will send a prize to the first person who does so.

1) When was the the Bible canon (includes New Testament) ratified ?

Canons are not ratified, the correct term is canonization so the answer to question one is. Never




2) When was the Gutenberg printing press invented ?

Depends on who you believe: Printing press - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3) When did the first PRINTED copy of the Bible appeared ?

The first precisely datable printing is the Gutenberg's 31-line Indulgence which is known to already exist on 22 October 1454

EXACT dates please. The winner needs to send me his/her postal address.


Keep your prize because in reality there is no substantiated EXACT date.
 
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Nobody has got all of them correct. All failed.
Anybody who doesn't want to give up ??

Maybe no one wants to send you their postal address.

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Do not publicly disseminate personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to, your home address, phone number, social security number, or credit card information.
 
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Maybe no one wants to sent you their postal address.

Yeah. It seems more like a marketing ploy. These days address lists sell for money.

Since, he didn't reply or do anything here, I will post the answer I sent him.

When was the the Bible canon (includes New Testament) ratified ?
There are a couple different versions of what is considered the canon. Catholic or not. Excluding the apocrypha one of the first full mentions was in 367 A.D. But his OT was not quite the same.

2) When was the Gutenberg printing press invented ?
The printing press took years to develop. But is considered finished about 1450.

3) When did the first PRINTED copy of the Bible appeared ? Constantinople fell in 1453, the first Gutenberg printed copy of the bible were all after that and before 1460, but it is my understanding that we are not 100% sure of the dates 1454-56. Of course there were other hand printed version going way back.

 
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Yeah. It seems more like a marketing ploy. These days address lists sell for money.

Since, he didn't reply or do anything here, I will post the answer I sent him.

When was the the Bible canon (includes New Testament) ratified ?
There are a couple different versions of what is considered the canon. Catholic or not. Excluding the apocrypha one of the first full mentions was in 367 A.D. But his OT was not quite the same.

2) When was the Gutenberg printing press invented ?
The printing press took years to develop. But is considered finished about 1450.

3) When did the first PRINTED copy of the Bible appeared ? Constantinople fell in 1453, the first Gutenberg printed copy of the bible were all after that and before 1460, but it is my understanding that we are not 100% sure of the dates 1454-56. Of course there were other hand printed version going way back.


You just provided years, not full dates.
I need full dates - mm/dd/yyyy. Think harder !
 
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For #3, perhaps the date you are looking for is March 12, 1455, however that is not an accurate answer to your question. On that date Enea Silvio Piccolomini reports that in Frankfurt, THE YEAR BEFORE, a marvelous man had been PROMOTING, the sale of a printed bible, and that he had seen sections of it. Later in 1455, creditors took Gutenberg's equipment.

What that tells us is that Gutenberg was promoting the Bible in 1454, and that at least some of it was available for inspection between 1454 and March 12, 1455. No one knows when it was actually completed, but there were an estimated 180 copies of "the 42 line" [per page] LATIN Bible completed before the equipment was taken in November.
 
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I should probably add that Enea had been in Frankfurt from October 5-31 of 1454, and that is when he would have seen it at the fair. But he only saw parts, he did not see a completed copy. Copies were sold before they were even available. Gutenberg had already been working on it since 1450. He may have had the 158-180 copies at least partially complete at this time. It is unknown if any were fully complete.
 
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Question #2
A lawsuit in 1439 indicates that Gutenberg had something saleable related to printing, but just what is not known.
In 1441 he was known to have executed prints from wood blocks in Strassburg
In 1442 he is said to have "printed two small books"
In 1448 he printed an astronomical Kalendar.
In 1450 he began using the metal type.
In 1451 (est.) he published a Latin Grammar by Aelius Donatus known now as the
Donatus of 1451.
In 1452 he began publishing other things as well.
So the answer is 1439-1450
 
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Canon answer---
Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria wrote the 39th Festal letter, or Easter Letter in Jan. 7, AD 367 which listed the same 27 NT books that are used today. But this was not officially approved until the Quinisext Council in Constantinople in 692 A.D. But that council was never recognized by the Roman Church, and its canons were ignored.

But Athanasius Old Testament list excludes Esther. Other than that, his Old Testament looks like most protestant version which do not include the Apocrypha.

Most of those books were all recognized before 200 A.D. as canon. The canon was nearly unanimous by the fifth century, but the Roman Catholic canon was not official until April 8, 1546 at Session 4 of the Council of Trent. For Protestants, the Thirty-Nine Article from May 29, 1571, and the Westminster Confession of 1646 specified the current complete canon including Esther.
 
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