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 (in early editions)
surface form: Apocrypha

New Testament
Bible
surface form: Old Testament
countryOfOrigin Saxony
surface form: Electorate of 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
September Testament
surface form: December 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
Reformation
surface form: Protestant Reformation
influencedBy Reformation
surface form: Protestant 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 Hebrew
surface form: Biblical Hebrew

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

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September Testament alternateName Luther Bible
this entity surface form: Luther’s 1522 New Testament
September Testament followedBy Luther Bible
this entity surface form: Luther’s complete German Bible of 1534
Bible hasTranslation Luther Bible
September Testament influenced Luther Bible
Textus Receptus influenced Luther Bible
Martin Luther notableWork Luther Bible