By Jaroslav Pelikan
No ebook has been extra pored over, has been the topic of extra statement and controversy, or had extra impact not just on our non secular ideals but additionally on our tradition and language than the Bible. and definitely no e-book has been as broadly learn. yet how did the Bible turn into the booklet we all know it to be?
during this fantastically written background, Jaroslav Pelikan takes the reader in the course of the reliable book’s evolution from its earliest incarnation as oral stories to its glossy lifestyles in a variety of iterations, translations, and languages. From the earliest Hebrew texts and the Bible’s visual appeal in Greek, then Latin, Pelikan explores the canonization of alternative Bibles and why sure books have been followed via definite religions and sects, in addition to the improvement of the printing press, the translation into glossy languages, and ranging colleges of severe scholarship.
either an everlasting paintings of scholarship and a desirable learn, Whose Bible Is It? can be eagerly welcomed by way of the numerous enthusiasts of Elaine Pagels’s books and Adam Nicolson’s God’s Secretaries.
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There is a valuable tidbit of information in the New Testament about this process, in the farewell discourse of the apostle Paul to the elders of the church in Ephesus, reported in the Acts of the Apostles. ’” As it was translated in the King James Version of the English Bible, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” this is among the most frequently quoted—though not at the same time the most faithfully heeded—of the sayings of Jesus. Yet it is not recorded in any of the Gospels, not even in the one written by Luke, the author of Acts who has Paul cite it here.
He, too, did not write anything. He was able to read from the scroll of the Prophets, announcing, “Today in your hearing this text has come true,” and by that announcement once again giving primacy to hearing over text. But the one mention in the Gospels of his writing, when he “bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground,” is of doubtful authenticity in the Greek manuscripts. Even if it is authentic, moreover, it does not report anything about just what it was that he wrote. He criticized his opponents for “studying the scriptures diligently” but not understanding them because they refused to listen to the living words that he, being the Word of God in the flesh, was speaking to them here and now.
One of the basic differences between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the two parties within Judaism that figure the most prominently in the New Testament accounts, was said to be that the Pharisees accepted the authority of traditions alongside the authority of the biblical text, while the Sadducees denied such authority, in principle at any rate. The concept of an “oral Torah” alongside the written Torah underlies the traditions that were then to be collected in the Talmud. Within Christian history the issue became central to the debates of the sixteenth-century Reformation, in which Luther and Calvin rejected the claim that the church’s traditional interpretations of the Bible and even its nonbiblical traditions were an authoritative source of divine revelation alongside or in addition to the written Bible.