Luther Bible
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The Luther Bible is Martin Luther’s influential 16th-century German translation of the Christian Bible that helped shape both the German language and the Protestant Reformation.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35054 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Luther Bible Context triple: [Bible, hasTranslation, Luther Bible]
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A.
Vulgate
The Vulgate is the late-4th-century Latin version of the Bible, traditionally attributed to St. Jerome, that became the Catholic Church’s standard biblical text for many centuries.
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B.
King James Version
The King James Version is a landmark 17th-century English translation of the Christian Bible renowned for its majestic prose and lasting influence on English literature and religious practice.
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Bible
The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
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Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is a modern-language Bible produced and published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, notable for its use by Jehovah’s Witnesses and its distinctive renderings of key theological terms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Luther Bible Target entity description: The Luther Bible is Martin Luther’s influential 16th-century German translation of the Christian Bible that helped shape both the German language and the Protestant Reformation.
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A.
Vulgate
The Vulgate is the late-4th-century Latin version of the Bible, traditionally attributed to St. Jerome, that became the Catholic Church’s standard biblical text for many centuries.
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B.
King James Version
The King James Version is a landmark 17th-century English translation of the Christian Bible renowned for its majestic prose and lasting influence on English literature and religious practice.
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C.
Bible
The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
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D.
Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
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E.
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is a modern-language Bible produced and published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, notable for its use by Jehovah’s Witnesses and its distinctive renderings of key theological terms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bible translation
ⓘ
German Bible translation ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | Reformation Day ⓘ |
| contains |
Apocrypha (in early editions)
ⓘ
surface form:
Apocrypha
New Testament ⓘ Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| countryOfOrigin |
Saxony
ⓘ
surface form:
Electorate of Saxony
Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| denominationalContext | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| firstCompleteBiblePublicationDate | 1534 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1522 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationPart | New Testament ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian scripture
ⓘ
religious text ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
1534 complete edition
ⓘ
1545 edition ⓘ 2017 revision ⓘ September Testament ⓘ
surface form:
December Testament
September Testament ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| impact |
contributed to literacy in German-speaking lands
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helped spread Reformation ideas ⓘ served as linguistic model for later German Bibles ⓘ |
| influenced |
German culture
ⓘ
German language ⓘ German literature ⓘ Reformation ⓘ
surface form:
Protestant Reformation
|
| influencedBy |
Reformation
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestant Reformation
|
| language | German ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
extensive marginal notes
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prefaces to biblical books ⓘ standardization of Early New High German ⓘ use of everyday German ⓘ woodcut illustrations ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Wittenberg ⓘ |
| printedBy | Hans Lufft ⓘ |
| publisher | Hans Lufft ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Protestantism ⓘ |
| sourceLanguage |
Hebrew
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surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
Koine Greek ⓘ Vulgate ⓘ
surface form:
Latin Vulgate
|
| theologicalOrientation |
justification by faith
ⓘ
sola scriptura ⓘ |
| translationMethod | vernacular translation ⓘ |
| translator | Martin Luther ⓘ |
| usedBy |
German-speaking Protestants
ⓘ
Lutheran churches ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Luther Bible Description of subject: The Luther Bible is Martin Luther’s influential 16th-century German translation of the Christian Bible that helped shape both the German language and the Protestant Reformation.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Luther’s complete German Bible of 1534
this entity surface form:
Luther’s 1522 New Testament
this entity surface form:
Luther’s German New Testament translation
this entity surface form:
Luther’s German Bible prefaces
this entity surface form:
Lutherbibel
this entity surface form:
Luther’s German New Testament translation
subject surface form:
Textus Receptus
this entity surface form:
New Testament of the Luther Bible
this entity surface form:
Martin Luther’s German Bible
subject surface form:
Mendelssohn's Elijah
subject surface form:
Ein deutsches Requiem
subject surface form:
The Creation
this entity surface form:
Luther Bible (German text influence)
this entity surface form:
Luther’s German New Testament
this entity surface form:
Luther’s German Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Luther’s German New Testament
this entity surface form:
Luther's German translation of the New Testament
this entity surface form:
Martin Luther's Bible translation
this entity surface form:
Luther Bible translation (16th century)