09-04-2004, 11:39 AM
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Huntington Library in So. Cal exhibits Bibles
For anyone in the Southern California area, or who might be in the area between now and January 5, the Huntington Library has a new exhibit The Bible and the People
LA Times article
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One of the exhibit's nine rooms, in fact, will be devoted to the various tools people have employed through the ages to learn the Bible: study aids to define the text's ancient words, "harmonies" that seek to explain the contradictions, rhyming schemes to memorize passages, and concordances to locate key phrases and characters.
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Two Bibles represent the persecution of those who tried to translate the Bible from Latin, the language of the church, to English at a time when church authorities feared that unschooled readers would misinterpret the text and fall into heresy, Ferrell said.
One is a 15th century unauthorized English translation of the New Testament by followers of professor and theologian John Wycliffe. His group, known as Lollards, pressed for greater lay involvement, including direct Bible reading. The church excommunicated Wycliffe and after he died in 1384, ordered his bones exhumed and burned.
The other work is a fourth-edition New Testament translated into English in 1534 by William Tyndale, a Reformation leader and linguist. Many consider him to be as influential as William Shakespeare in shaping the English language, and he is credited with rendering from the original Hebrew and Greek some of the Bible's best-known phrases: "Let there be light," "powers that be" and "signs of the times."
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