In a message dated 98-07-25 19:49:57 EDT, you write: > << Something that I had forgotten is that this Bible includes the > Apocrypha. This is shown in the xerox copy because part of the > top of the family record page is torn off.Does anybody find this > significant? >> > > I have a BIble from 1860 or so that includes the Apocrypha. I don't think > it > really means anything except it was before the "experts" started analyzing > the Bible and deciding maybe it wasn't such a good idea to put that part > into > some Bibles. Who knows.... > > The King James Version of the Bible (1611) originally came with the Apocrypha. At some later time (I don't remember when), the British Bible Society and the American Bible Society decided that they would not continue to print the Apocrypha in their editions of the KJV. This had a significant effect on other printers as well. Editions of the KJV have been printed since then that do contain the Apocrypha, although they are few and far between. I remember seeing them in my college library that were printed by Oxford and Cambridge as recently as the 1950's. This past year, Oxford Press has put out a paperback version that has the Apocrypha in it again. It is available at Barnes and Noble. All in all, I don't know that there is any great significance that Henry Sasser's Bible contained the Apocrypha. Doug Sherman