1900-1909 C.I. Scofield

 

Just a few years before World War I, C. I. Scofield approached Oxford Press with an idea for a comprehensive Bible that would help the average layman to better understand the Scriptures. Scofield's Bible became one of the mainstays of the dispensational and fundamental movements. Thousands of dispensationalists who belonged to non-dispensational churches were buying his study Bible. Following the success of his Reference Study Bible, Scofield published an extremely popular correspondence course, produced a magazine (The Believer), and after 1902, devoted his full energies to speaking, doing Bible research and writing, and teaching at an annual summer Bible conference on Long Island.

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1917- 2003 Scofield Reference Bible

C. I. Scofield first published his notes to the King James Version in 1909 and revised them in 1917. These notes laid out an elaborate chronology of dispensations that define salvation history. Revised again in the 1960s, the Scofield Bible remains the classic statement of dispensational premillennialism. This edition features introductions to each book of the Bible, including chronology, as well as Scofield's notes. The Scofield Reference Study Bible, more than any other single publication, solidified the premillennial movement. Between 1909 and 1967, Oxford Press says sales surpassed 5 million and may have even by now exceeded 10 million copies sold. A 1967 revised addition sold an additional 2.5 million copies by 1990. Though it was more prominently sold in England and America, the Scofield Bible became the Bible of choice throughout the world of fundamentalism and became even more popular when Scofield died in 1921.

Read excerpts from the Scofield Reference Bible .

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