Book- Where We Got the Bible by H. Graham

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One chapter in this book describes the various translations of the Bible in the Vernacular prior to Wycliff and Luther. I had a discussion with a Lutheran pastor and he was certain that Luther was the first to translate the Bible in the Venacular. But this book says that indeed there were many other translations. But there are no footnotes to reference. Are there any other sources that I may look at?
 
Here is some information. Luther’s version was 1522.

Both St Bede the Venerable and King Alfred the Great translated the Bible
During the Middle Ages, there was a translation of the Bible into Middle English, a copy of which is in the British Museum; the so-called Wycliff Bible. Authorship of this has been attributed to John Wycliff (c1330-1384), a Yorkshireman who was the leader of the heretical sect, the Lollards, but Cardinal Gasquet inclined to the view that it was not his work. At the time, translations were allowed on the Continent and Archbishop Arundel of Canterbury (Archbishop 1396-1414) promised that something would be done in England. The Wycliff Bible, whoever translated it, was condemned and forbidden to be used by Archbishop Arundel at Oxford in 1408. The condemnation was not of the Bible in English, approved versions existed before Wycliff. It was condemned because it was a bad translation.

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Rachael_in_Okla said:
One chapter in this book describes the various translations of the Bible in the Vernacular prior to Wycliff and Luther. I had a discussion with a Lutheran pastor and he was certain that Luther was the first to translate the Bible in the Venacular. But this book says that indeed there were many other translations. But there are no footnotes to reference. Are there any other sources that I may look at?
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The Vulgate itself was a translation into the vernacular language: latin. The contention that Luther was the first to translate the Bible into a vernacular language is ridiculous. Try this article at Wikipedia, in particular:
Although John Wycliff is often credited with the first translation of the Bible into English, there were, in fact, many translations of large parts of the Bible centuries before Wycliff’s work. Toward the end of the seventh century, the Venerable Bede began a translation of Scripture into Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon). Aldhelm (AD 640–709), likewise, translated the complete Book of Psalms and large portions of other scriptures into Old English. In the 11th century, Abbot Ælfric translated much of the Old Testament into Old English.
Note that this article is on English translations of the Bible, which of course is less general than any vernacular translations.
 
Rachael_in_Okla said:
One chapter in this book describes the various translations of the Bible in the Vernacular prior to Wycliff and Luther. I had a discussion with a Lutheran pastor and he was certain that Luther was the first to translate the Bible in the Venacular. But this book says that indeed there were many other translations. But there are no footnotes to reference. Are there any other sources that I may look at?
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There were 18 editions of the Bible in German before Luther, all from the Vulgate.​

Luther’s was the first to be based on Hebrew & Greek - that is the difference. ##
 
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…Luther’s was the first to be based on Hebrew & Greek - that is the difference.​

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It’s no different from the Vulgate in that respect, is it?

Opinion time: who do you think was a better translator – Luther or St. Jerome? My money is on St. Jerome.

God Bless,
RyanL
 
In the time of Luther and Calvin, there was a movement called
"Renaissance Italian humanism” to get back to the sources, back to the Hebrew and Greek, back to the Church fathers, and to get away from the Scholastic theology of that day, which they thought boring and out of touch.

I recommend the audio tape series by Ken Hensley called:
“John Calvin - Inside the Protestant Mind”
Ken is a former Baptist minster who converted.
In this audio series, he covers why the reformation happened the way it did.
I also have his cd’s
“Sola Scriptura - The Cracked Foundation Of The Protestant Worldview” and “Luther - The Rest Of The Story”
(I drive alot so I have plenty of time to listen to cd’s)
 
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