Wide as the Waters (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Benson Bobrick
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Religion and literary history
- Time of Work: 1380-1611
- Setting: London, Oxford, and Cambridge, England; Antwerp, Geneva, Douai
- Principal Characters: John Wycliffe, William Tyndale, Henry VIII, Miles Coverdale, Elizabeth I, James I
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: France or French people, Literature, England or English people, London, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Renaissance, Middle Ages, Switzerland or Swiss people, Belgium or Belgian people, Reformation
- Locales: London, England, Antwerp, Belgium, Geneva, Switzerland, Cambridge, England, Oxford, England, Douai, France
In the beginning, “the Word” was in Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek. In the third century b.c.e. the Old Testament was translated into Greek for Jews of the Hellenistic diaspora. In the second century c.e. an “Old Latin” translation appeared for Christians who lacked Greek, and in the late fourth century c.e. St. Jerome produced another Latin version (the Vulgate) for western Christians. By the late Middle Ages, Latin, too, had become unfamiliar to most of the laity and even to some of the clerisy. Nevertheless, the Catholic Church objected to further translation because it feared...
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