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Pierre Robert Olivétan was the first to translate the
BibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
into the
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starting from the Hebrew and Greek texts. He was a cousin of
John CalvinJohn Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530...
, who wrote a Latin preface for the translation, often called the Olivetan Bible.
His work was based on that of his teacher
Jacques Lefèvre d'EtaplesJacques Lefèvre d’Étaples or Jacob Faber Stapulensis was a French theologian and humanist. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "d’Étaples" was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary, a...
. It was published in 1535 as
La Bible Qui est toute la Saincte scripture at
Neuchâtel. This translation has been considered the first French Protestant Bible.
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