The Geneva Bible: (The Annotated New Testament, 1602 Edition (Pilgrim Classic Commentaries)

The Geneva Bible (The Annotated New Testament, 1602 Edition) in facsimile Edited by Gerald T. Sheppard. The Geneva Bible, the most popular translation of Shakespeare's time, arrived in the New World on the Mayflower and prevailed in the homes and churches of the earliest American colonists until about 1640, when the less popular King James Version began to gain wide acceptance.