Eliot Indian Bible

Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe
Up-Biblum God

Algonquian Indian Bible title page 1663
Translator	John Eliot
Cover artist	Samuel Green
Country	Colonial America
Language	Massachusett language
Series	Old Testament New Testament Book of Psalms
Subject	Christian Bible
Genre	Christian literature
Publisher	Samuel Green
Publication date	1663
Media type	book
Preceded by	New Testament in 1661
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The Eliot Indian Bible (officially: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, aka: Algonquian Bible) was the first Christian Bible to be published in British North America. English Puritan missionary John Eliot produced a translation of the Geneva Bible into the Indian Massachusett language. This is the reason that it is also known as Eliot's Indian Bible.Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up Biblum God and the cover page of the translated Bible means The Whole Holy His-Bible God, both Old Testament and also New Testament. This turned by the-servant-of-Christ, who is called John Eliot.

The history of Eliot's Indian Bible involves three historical events that came together to produce the Algonquian Bible.

One event was when the first printing press came from England to the colonies so that religious material and Puritan writings could be printed which had been censored in England. Stephen Day of England contracted Jose Glover, a wealthy minister who disagreed with the religious teachings of the Church of England, to transport a printing press to America in 1638.

Jose Glover died at sea while traveling to America. His widow Elizabeth (Harris) Glover, Stephen Day, and the press arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Mrs. Glover opened her print shop with the assistance of Jose's worker Day. Day started the operations of the first American print shop, which was the forerunner of Harvard University Press. The press was located in the house of the president of Harvard College where religious materials were published in the 1640s, such as the Bay Psalm Book. Elizabeth Glover married president of Harvard College Henry Dunster on June 21, 1641. In 1659, the printing operations were relocated to the Indian College at Harvard when a new printing press was obtained. From the Indian College, Eliot's Indian Bible was printed.

Another event that contributed to bringing about the Algonquian Bible was Parliament enacting An Act for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England in 1649. This set up a Corporation in England consisting of a President, a Treasurer, and fourteen people to help them. The name of the Corporation was "The President and Society for the propagation of the Gospel in New England," but it was later known simply as the New England Company. The Corporation had the power to collect money in England for missionary purposes in New England. This money was received by the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England and dispersed for missionary purposes such as Eliot's Indian Bible.