July 12, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsIn the Galleries: John Speed’s Postdeluvian Genealogy from the First Edition of the King James Bible Historian John Speed (1542–1629) worked with Hebrew scholar Hugh Broughton to create a 36-page genealogy to accompany the first printing of the King James Bible. The genealogy traced “euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Speed’s genealogy… read more
