Though they claim to work from many of the same source materials, their translation strategies and editorial approaches will yield very different prose. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.The shelves of any bookstore, Christian or otherwise, will feature dozens of versions of the Bible. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. He's talking about the translation of the Bible into English on the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.Ĭopyright © 2011 NPR. The CEB is a totally new translation done by a broad team of scholars.Īnd that, even though materially, they'll be different from Tyndale, they'll be pretty formally the same in the sense that Tyndale did use what was the best that he had at the time, and Tyndale did try to understand that translation was a matter of putting it in a language of people that people could understand.Īgain, that was his mission, and that's really what he accomplished. CROSS: The New International Version will likely be a fairly conservative revision of the already-existing New International Version. How much of a departure do we expect these versions to be? Will they be earth-shattering, or will they be fairly conservative revisions? RAZ: Next year, as part of, I guess, the marking of the 400 years since the King James version came out, two new versions of the English Bible are set to be released. He particularly alienated Henry VIII, who could have been his closest supporter had he not been so self-avowedly in favor of many of Luther's reforms, which were seen by Henry and many other monarchs of the day as direct threats to monarchy. So he's not going to find any friends there. He certainly alienated the Catholic Church. CROSS: But the real problem that Tyndale had was, is that he seemed to alienate just about everyone. CROSS: Fading into obscurity, he had the distinct misfortune of being a theological giant in a time when historical titans sort of walked the land. Why not? Why, I mean, why did he sort of fade into obscurity? RAZ: He was not canonized or remembered in a way that other martyrs were. That was an invention of William Tyndale. CROSS: But, you know, one surprising thing is that even Jewish speakers of English have gained a new name for their most sacred holiday, Passover. RAZ: So even Prince owes something to William Tyndale? Filthy lucre is another favorite of mine scapegoat, gave up the ghost, sign of the times. But my brother's keeper, that's certainly gotten into. CROSS: One that people say the twinkling of an eye. some of the common, popular phrases that we use that he basically invented. RAZ: Reverend Paul Cross, when I was reading through some of the background on him, I was amazed to learn about some of the phrases that we use. Ultimately, he was executed by first strangling and then by being burned at the stake. He was tried for heresy, put in prison and eventually burned at the stake. RAZ: The burning of his translations foreshadows what eventually would happen to him. And as a matter of fact, they had mass burnings of Tyndale's Bible at a place called Paul's Cross or St. The church and the political powers within England at the time saw this as a threat, and they were certainly opposed to this. But there was a certain faction within the English people who really desired this. But translating the Bible into English was against the law in England. Paul): On the one hand, you had people in England who were very hungry to have the Bible in their own native tongue. The Reverend PAUL CROSS (Master's Institute, St. But it turns out a lot of it was copied from a translation finished 50 years before, in the late 16th century by a man named William Tyndale.Īnd according to Reverend Paul Cross, who teaches at the Master's Institute in St. Today, it's the bestselling book of all time. Four hundred years ago, English-speaking Christians were handed the King James Bible.
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