RELS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: World War I
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Jerome worked in a cave, to bring the bible to a new audience to a new place in rome, translated into english, deeply flawed, widely read bible. In oxford, england: experts in latin, handful of scholars, 1370-> john wicklif, clergy should be allowed to own property, storong sense that english society needed to be reformed, liberated from roman church influence. In late 1300s, books have been around 1000 years. John wicklef: was religious and active, why shouldn"t all people have access to the testament, church didn"t want to give ordinary people interpretation, translate little himself, produced by wicklif and his team. It was illegal to possess a bible is. Pope martin: 44 years his death, wicklif burned bones after death. Another guy: william tindell, university was very well graded. Inspired by wicklif"s example: many ways starting all over again, unlike wicklif, hve hebrew testament and latin testament, first new testament produced from greek version to english, october 1536, captures.