Luther Bible

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The Luther Bible is Martin Luther’s influential 16th-century German translation of the Christian Bible that helped shape both the German language and the Protestant Reformation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bible translation
German Bible translation
commemoratedOn Reformation Day
contains Apocrypha
New Testament
Old Testament
linked to: Bible
countryOfOrigin Electorate of Saxony
linked to: Saxony

Holy Roman Empire
denominationalContext Lutheranism
firstCompleteBiblePublicationDate 1534
firstPublicationDate 1522
firstPublicationPart New Testament
genre Christian scripture
religious text
hasEdition 1534 complete edition
1545 edition
2017 revision
December Testament
linked to: September Testament

September Testament
historicalPeriod 16th century
impact contributed to literacy in German-speaking lands
helped spread Reformation ideas
served as linguistic model for later German Bibles
influenced German culture
German language
German literature
Protestant Reformation
linked to: Reformation
influencedBy Protestant Reformation
linked to: Reformation
language German
notableFeature extensive marginal notes
prefaces to biblical books
standardization of Early New High German
use of everyday German
woodcut illustrations
placeOfPublication Wittenberg
printedBy Hans Lufft
publisher Hans Lufft
religion Christianity
religiousTradition Protestantism
sourceLanguage Biblical Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew

Koine Greek
Latin Vulgate
linked to: Vulgate
theologicalOrientation justification by faith
sola scriptura
translationMethod vernacular translation
translator Martin Luther
usedBy German-speaking Protestants
Lutheran churches

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Bible hasTranslation Luther Bible
Martin Luther notableWork Luther Bible
Textus Receptus influenced Luther Bible
September Testament influenced Luther Bible
September Testament followedBy Luther’s complete German Bible of 1534
linked to: Luther Bible
September Testament alternateName Luther’s 1522 New Testament
linked to: Luther Bible
Novum Instrumentum omne basisFor Luther’s German New Testament translation
linked to: Luther Bible
Lutheran Church (for reading and instruction) influencedBy Luther’s German Bible prefaces
linked to: Luther Bible
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft hasPublication Lutherbibel
linked to: Luther Bible
Luther’s exile at Wartburg Castle producedWork Luther’s German New Testament translation
linked to: Luther Bible
Textus Receptus basisFor New Testament of the Luther Bible
subject linked to: Received Text
linked to: Luther Bible
Great Bible basedOn Martin Luther’s German Bible
linked to: Luther Bible
Mendelssohn's Elijah textSource Luther Bible
subject linked to: Mendelssohn Elijah
Ein deutsches Requiem textSource Luther Bible
subject linked to: Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
The Creation hasBiblicalSource Luther Bible (German text influence)
subject linked to: Haydn The Creation
linked to: Luther Bible
Melchior Lotter the Younger printed Luther’s German New Testament
linked to: Luther Bible
Melchior Lotter the Younger printed Luther’s German Old Testament
linked to: Luther Bible
Erasmus’s Greek New Testament editions influenced Luther’s German New Testament
linked to: Luther Bible
St. Paul, Op. 36 textSource Luther Bible
EKM usesBibleTranslation Luther Bible
Junker Jörg associatedWork Luther's German translation of the New Testament
linked to: Luther Bible
Luther Room associatedWith Luther Bible
Standard German standardizationInfluencedBy Martin Luther's Bible translation
linked to: Luther Bible
Early New High German standardizationMilestone Luther Bible translation (16th century)
linked to: Luther Bible