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Yes. The NT was a revision by Tompson. The 1560(Whittingham's 1557 NT) and 1599(Tompson) appear to have been revisions of Tyndale's NT. ....well, Tompson was a revision of a revision.

Whittingham's worked with other translators and they did their work from the original languages. They didn't just look at Tyndale's work and reword it.

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The TR, yes. It is likely they had access to more than Tyndale, but I would be guessing based upon circumstances of the transaltion work. One group was in exlie, the other guy was running for his life and could only take so much with him.

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No, not me. I prefer the ESV. I do like the Geneva though.

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Those numbers for a single year seem quite inflated. Could you provide the full quote making this claim?

 

Those two pages are a complete list from the "Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Bible Society". Not a quote, but a 'chart' listing each year and which Bible, or NT, with number of editions printed in that year.

If I can figure it out I will post a photo of the pages.

If I misunderstood the list I apologize. But I do understand it to mean what I previously posted.

 

Gary DeMar, President of American Vision &
Honorary Member of the 1599 Geneva Bible Advisory Board says this in an article

"While other English translations failed to capture the hearts of the reading public, the Geneva Bible was instantly popular. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 144 editions appeared. For forty years after the publication of the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible continued to be the Bible of the home. Oliver Cromwell used extracts from the Geneva Bible for his Soldier's Pocket Bible which he issued to the army."

144 is pretty close to the 140 claim made by Daniell.

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The list they use in Easons book, published 1937, is a list of existing Bibles, whether whole Bible, or just NT, that they are aware of and have record of as actually being possessed by known organizations or persons. Each printing (edition) had a certain amount produced. As such, there weren't only 144 Bibles printed, but possibly 1000's. So to have a couple 100 GB printed in 1599 that weren't Tomson NT's is hardly an impossibility.

 

As I thought.

Known copies, then, were being counted, not editions, right?

 

Tomson’s 1576 New Testament should perhaps be considered a different English translation than the 1560 Geneva Bible.

The title page of a 1599 edition and a 1611 edition of his New Testament stated that it was “translated out of the Greek by Theodore Beza,” which indicated that its basis would have been the Latin New Testament of Beza that Beza himself translated from the Greek. The title page also noted that Beza’s translation was “Englished by L. Tomson.

Laurence Tomson likely used the 1560 Geneva’s N. T. as a basis for his translating of Beza’s Latin N. T.
David Daniell referred to “Tomson’s revision of the Geneva English New Testament, based on Beza’s important Latin edition of 1565” (Bible in English, p. 352). Daniell added that “the edition of Beza he [Tomson] is using was that prepared by L’Oiseleur, as he states on his title page, and L‘Oiseleur had put together the notes from Beza and from Joachim Camerarius” (Ibid.).

Concerning Tomson’s 1576 revision of the Geneva N. T., T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule noted: “The alterations are mainly due to a comparison with Beza’s Latin version of 1565” (Historical Catalogue, p. 96). In a book published by or for John Rylands Library, this is stated concerning Tomson’s 1576 NT: “The alterations resulted from a close comparison of the Geneva text with Beza’s Latin version of 1565” (Catalogue of an Exhibition of Bibles, p. 24).

Backus referred to Tomson as the “translator of Beza’s Latin New Testament into English” (Reformed Roots of the English NT, p. 174). Backus noted that “Tomson translated Beza’s Latin New Testament” (pp. 187-188). Backus pointed out that in 1574 Pierre L’Oiselsur de Villers “produced an edition of Beza’s Latin New Testament” and that “in 1576 Tomson published his translation of L’Oiseleur’s edition of Beza’s New Testament” (pp. 18, 22, 27, 188). Backus asserted that “we can see that Beza’s influence on the English Geneva and Laurence Tomson’s version was largely that of his Latin versions” (p. 27). Backus concluded: “We can also see a large measure of agreement between Tomson and Geneva, which suggests that Tomson must, at least, have referred to the 1560 Geneva when translating L’Oiseleur’s edition of Beza’s Latin New Testament” (p. 197).

 

It seems to be different editions being counted, not known copies.

Those who listed them found some differences in them indicating that they were different printed editions.

 

Have downloaded a 1557 from Internet Archives - Going to do a little comparison.
https://archive.org/stream/newtestamentofou42lond#page/n533/mode/2up

 

Please do.

I have the Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Bible Society before me and frankly I don't see how one could get to those numbers from what is presented in the Catalogue.

 

1557 Wittingham NT -

"To the which the figure of Baptism is agreeing now that saveth vs also: not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but in that a good conscience maketh request to God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Which is at the right hand of God : gone into heaven, to whom the Angels, powers, and might are subdued."

1560 Geneva NT -

"To the which also the figure that now saveth us, even Baptism agreeth (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but in that a good conscience maketh request to God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Which is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, to whom the Angels, and Powers, and might are subject."

See a difference?