It’s clear that after more than 400 years, the King James Bible has more than proven its staying power. “[For] reading in worship services, it's much more majestic than most of the modern translations,” says Meyers. “It’s had a very powerful influence on our language and our lite...
aMost humanists were catholic churchmen,most notably Pope Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), Sixtus IV and Leo X. and there was often patronage of humanists by senior church figures. Much humanist effort went into improving and understanding and translations of Biblical and early Christian book...
These Bible translations were the chief inspiration and chief cause of the Lollard movement, a pre-Reformation movement that rejected many of the distinctive teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. In the early Middle Ages, most Western Christian people encountered the Bible only in the form of ...
Bible's Buried Secrets- Episode. 1: Did King David's empire exist? (YouTube 59:02). BIBLEGATEWAY.COM- a searchable online Bible in over 100 versions and 50 languages. Black Protestant sermons are four times as long as those in US Catholic churches- "A study of sermons posted only has...
Panchatantra This collection of beloved Indian animal fables, written as early as 100 B.C., is known to us from early translations in Pahlavi (now lost), Syriac and Arabic—the original Sanskrit source vanished. A Hebrew translation was the basis for a popular version in medieval Europe. ...
Martin didn't think you should be burned at the stake for reading alternative translations like William's. He also thought that the bread and wine used in communion was just that, bread and wine - blessed bread and wine, yes - but bread and wine nonetheless. The Catholic Church held then...