The Murderous History of Bible Translations: Power, Conflict and the Quest for Meaning

✍ Scribed by Freedman, Harry

• Book ID: 109008559
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781472921680

✦ Synopsis

In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year later he was strangled and then burned at the stake. His co-translator was also burned. In that same year the translator of the first Dutch Bible was arrested and beheaded. These were not the first, nor were they the last instances of extreme violence against Bible translators. The Murderous History of Bible Translations tells the remarkable, and bloody, story of those who dared translate the word of God.

The Bible has been translated far more than any other book. To our minds it is self-evident that believers can read their sacred literature in a language they understand. But the history of Bible translations is far more contentious than reason would suggest. Bible translations underlie an astonishing number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world.

Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography...