The B I B L E…Enter “the King” BtP 8.17.2024

Vulgate vs. Vernacular

The Expert vs. the Mystic

Not unlike the relationship between alchemy and emerging physical sciences.

The Received Text.

A story we will see repeated

Impact of the Renaissance: Returning to the Source(s)

Why Vernacular translations became important

Conflicting Theological Traditions

The Decline of Monasticism in Puritan Lands

Reduced number of “clergy”

Shift in Educational priorities

England vs. Spain/France

Colonial vs. Royalist/Expansionist

Non-conformist vs. State Church (Roman Catholicism)

Literate laymen vs. illiterate soldiers/politicians

Relatively few clergy vs. whole clerical apparatus of catholicism

The English Bible Tradition

The production of Bible translations at this period was a political, as well as theological and literary, enterprise. Leonard J. Greenspoon, “Bible, English Versions of the,” The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

Wycliffe

Tyndale

Coverdale

Matthew’s

Great Bible

Geneva Bible

Bishops Bible

KJV