Although Wycliffe's Bible had preceded the Protestant Reformation, England was actually one of the last countries in Europe to have a printed vernacular Bible.

Although English translations of the Bible had existed for hundreds of years, the Middle English translation published under the direction of John Wycliffe in the 1380s, known as Wycliffe's Bible, was the first to gain widespread acceptance and use.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Although Anabaptists began with the Radical Reformers in the 16th century, certain people and groups may still legitimately be considered their forerunners due to a similar approach to the interpretation and application of the Bible.

Although his name does not appear in any other part of the Jewish Bible, Rabbinic tradition holds Habakkuk to be the Shunammite woman's son, who was restored to life by Elisha in 2 Kings 4: 16.

Although the Bible never says " Jesus is God ", trinity based theology summarily claims: " Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man in one person, and will be so forever.

Although this selected translation is not generally quoted by members of the Church, the English Bible issued by the Church and commonly used by Latter-day Saints contains cross references to the Joseph Smith Translation ( JST ), as well as an appendix containing major excerpts from it.

Although the Hebrew Bible has many references to capital punishment, the Jewish sages used their authority to make it nearly impossible for a Jewish court to impose a death sentence.

Although Albertus Magnus did much to instill mysticism in the Order of Preachers, it is a concept that reaches back to the Hebrew Bible.

Although the Hebrew Bible describes this event as an ecstatic vision rather than a historical occurrence, later interpreters speculated as to the fate of these men, both before and after their revitalization.

Although uncertain, it is widely thought that during the Bar Kokhba revolt, when a rabbinical assembly decided which books could be regarded as part of the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish apocrypha were left out.

Although the practice of Holy Communion was first alluded to in the Christian Bible and defined by theologians in the 1st centuries AD, it was around the time of the appearance of the first Christianised Grail literature that the Roman church was beginning to add more ceremony and mysticism around this particular sacrament.

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

Although not required, presidents have traditionally palmed a Bible while swearing the oath and have added, " So help me God!

" Although many theologians would argue that an " age of accountability " is nowhere mentioned in the Bible.

Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature mention various female role models, religious law treats women differently in various circumstances.

" Although many early English deists had relied on ridicule to attack the Bible and Christianity, theirs was a refined wit rather than the broad humor Paine employed.

Although critics responded to Paine's analysis of the Bible, they did not usually address his specific arguments.

Although the rendering of the Tetragrammaton as " Yahweh " is found in the Old Testament of versions such as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible ( 1985 ), the liturgical use of Yahweh in vernarcular worship was reprobated by the Vatican in 2008.

Although forbidden in the Hebrew Bible, magic was widely practiced in the late Second Temple Period and well documented in the period following the destruction of the Temple into the 3rd, 4th and 5th centuries C. E.

Although most literary references to Israelites are located in the Hebrew Bible, there is also abundant non-biblical archaeological and historical evidence of ancient Israel and Judah.

Although the Ancient Hebrews did not practice castration, eunuchs were common in other cultures featured in the Bible, such as Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, the Persian Empire and Ancient Rome.

Although Unity is not a traditional Christian teaching, the foundations are based on the teachings of Jesus and the Bible.

Although a great divide exists within the church on these issues, the official position of the Church is that the Bible is the Word of God and that covenant-relationships between homosexuals are unacceptable.

Although it was considered illegal, slave children were often taught the alphabet and reading the Bible by their white playmates in private houses.

Although Eddy used terms such as " Science ", " Health ", " error ", " shadow ", " belief ", " Christ " and others used by Quimby, these terms are also to be found in the Bible and in the common language of the day.

Although unofficial rankings are circulated within some participating nations, there is therefore no standard.

Although he privately circulated The Prince among friends, the only theoretical work to be printed in his lifetime was The Art of War, about military science.

Although Bukharin had not challenged Stalin since 1929, his former supporters, including Martemyan Ryutin, drafted and clandestinely circulated an anti-Stalin platform, which called Stalin the “ evil genius of the Russian Revolution ”.

Although the technique is older, the first widely circulated use of the term " threaded code " is probably Bell's article " Threaded Code " from 1973.

Although rumors that canola oil can cause dangerous health problems circulated, there is no reason to believe canola oil poses unusual health risks and its consumption in food-grade forms is generally recognized as safe by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Although rumors about that shooting have circulated over the decades into Billy Thompson cold bloodily shooting Sheriff Whitney down, that never happened.

Although DC and Timely ( which evolved to become Marvel Comics ) characters are more famous today, circulation figures suggest that the best-selling superhero title of the era may have been Fawcett Comics ' Captain Marvel, whose approximately 1. 4 million copies per issue made it " the most widely circulated comic book in America.

Although he remains anonymous in the extant sources until the 18th century, the dissemination of the story of Murad's assassination in Florentine, Serbian, Ottoman and Greek sources suggests that versions of it circulated widely across the Balkans within half a century after the event.

Although no longer circulated, the term guinea survives in some circles, notably horse racing, and in the sale of rams, to mean an amount of one pound and one shilling ( 21 shillings ) or one pound and five pence in decimalised currency.

Although the Assumption ( Latin: assūmptiō, " taken up ") was only relatively recently defined as infallible dogma by the Catholic Church, and in spite of a statement by Saint Epiphanius of Salamis in 377 that no one knew whether Mary had died or not, apocryphal accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 4th century.

Although her memoir circulated in abolitionist circles, Kemble waited until 1863, during the American Civil War, to publish her anti-slavery Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.

Although the philosophical idea has circulated since Immanuel Kant and Thomas Paine, it was not scientifically evaluated until the 1960s.

Although Václav Havel, Ludvík Vaculík and Pavel Landovský were detained while trying to bring the charter to the Federal Assembly and the Czechoslovak government and the original document was confiscated, copies circulated as samizdat and on 7 January were published in several western newspapers ( including Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Times and New York Times ) and transmitted to Czechoslovakia by Czechoslovak-banned radio broadcasters like Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.

Although the paper is circulated nationwide, it gains more popularity in the east ( 31 %), the central part ( 18 %) and the north ( 16 %) comparatively to the other regions of China.

Although the early suggestion that the chalice was fabricated at Clonmacnoise and stolen from there by a Limerick Dane is widely circulated, this is unprovable.

Although rumors of his execution were widely circulated, Theremin was, in fact, put to work in a sharashka or secret research laboratory, together with other scientists and engineers, including aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev and rocket scientist Sergei Korolyov ( also a Kolyma inmate ).

( Although it did not become part of the Christian Biblical canon, it was widely circulated among Christians in the first two centuries and is part of the Apostolic Fathers.

Although criticised for their similarity to Neil Young ( indeed, rumours circulated around Hollywood that Young had cut the track anonymously ), America scored five more US Top 10 singles over the next three years, including a second US # 1 with " Sister Golden Hair " in 1975.

Although reconciled with C J Mahaney in 2011, he earlier described the parting of ways with Sovereign Grace Ministries as " an unbelievable nightmare " during which his family " were threatened in various ways if did not cooperate with ... A letter was circulated in an attempt to discredit me and to distort the events surrounding my departure.

Although the unit did not have windows, it was serviced by a fully integrated air-conditioning system which circulated fresh air throughout.

Although the tarikah ( the term can sometimes be used to refer to any ' group or sect ' some of whom may not even be Muslim ) have played a seminal role in Turkey's religious revival and in the mid-1990s still published several of the country's most widely circulated religious journals and newspapers, a new phenomenon, Islamcı aydın ( the Islamist intellectual ) unaffiliated with the traditional Sufi orders, emerged during the 1980s.

Although rumors circulated about organized retribution attacks from African Americans, conditions eased somewhat for a few weeks.

Although the Rites have circulated amongst yogis for decades, skeptics say that Tibetans have never recognized them as being authentic Tibetan practices.

Although rumours circulated at the time that German neo-Nazi groups were funding the BNP there is no evidence to back this up and it seems likely that the party was supported by a mixture of collections held in Trafalgar Square and funds from Fountaine who was personally well-off.