Scofield Reference Bible

The Scofield Bible is a widely used study Bible, I. Scofield provided and published by theologians Cyrus with annotations.

This edition of the Bible was published for the first time in 1909 as the Scofield Reference Bible. A first revision, it was 1917. Since 1967 appears a revised version in which some particularly idiosyncratic comments Scofield were mitigated by Oxford University Press. The original edition was based on the text of the King James Bible of 1611. The Oxford edition includes a slightly modernized version of this transmission. For the German edition of the Scofield's comments Gertrud Wasserzug had been translated into German. The first German edition was Luther's translation as revised in 1914 based on the later King James translation of the Bible.

The Scofield Bible became very popular because it contained some important innovations. For the first time a chain system was used, which combines Bible verses related to each other and it is so easy for the reader to follow a theme about various biblical books of time. It also includes an attempt to date the biblical events chronologically. Thus provides the commentary for each page of the Bible a date or an approximate date. Many fundamentalist Christians therefore found in the Scofield Bible a date for the creation, which was given to 4004 BC (see also Ussher - Lightfoot Calendar). The authority of the Scofield Bible then had many discussions about creationism result.

The Scofield Bible teaches the idea of dispensationalism, so this was a big influence in the United States. Scofield's notes to the Bible text of Ezekiel 38 prophesied that Russia would play a role in the battle of Armageddon in the future. These and similar observations, the Scofield Bible form the basis of chronological tables of the end times and speculation.