The Reformed Roots of the English New Testament: The Influence of Theodore Beza on the English New Testament

by Irena Dorota Backus

Publisher:

Pickwick Publications

, 1980

Overview

The Reformed Roots of the English New Testament examines the nature and extant of Theordore Beza’s influence on what we know today as the Authorized Version of the Bible. Two key documents, the Bodleian Bishops' manuscript (Gospels) and the Fulman manuscript (Epistles), appear to represent the work of the Final Revision Committee of the Authorized Version and provide substantial evidence for Bezian influence on the earliest stages of this crucial moment in the history of biblical translation and publication.

Key Features

• Examines the influence of Theodore Beza on the production of the Authorized Version
• Identifies how the Reformed faith shaped early English Bible Translation
• Provides analysis on key early modern biblical manuscripts

Contents

• I: General Survey of Material
  • Beza’s Manuscript Sources
  • Beza’s Use of the Church Fathers
  • Beza’s Laurence Tomson’s Translation of Beza’s Latin New Testament
  • Use of Beza’s New Testament by the Authorized Translators
  • The Bodleian Copy of the Bishops’ Bible 1602 Printed by Robert Barker
• II: Influence of Beza on the English Synoptic Gospels
  • St. Matthew
  • St. Mark
  • St. Luke
  • Relationship between Copy of the Bodleian Bishops’ and the Theology of Two Members of the Oxford Company
• III: Influence of Beza on the Pauline Epistles and Hebrews
  • Romans
  • 1 Corinthians
  • Galatians
  • Hebrews

Product Details

• Title: The Reformed Roots of the English New Testament: The Influence of Theodore Beza on the English New Testament
• Author: Irena Backus
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock
• Publication Date: 1980
• Pages: 238
• Christian Group: Reformed
• Resource Type: Monographs
• Topic: Church History

About Irena Dorota Backus

Irena Dorota Backus received her D.Phil. from Oxford University and wrote her Habilitationschrift at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is “professeur ordinaire” at the Institut d'histoire de la Reformation at the Univesity of Geneva, Switzerland. Among her many publications are The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse, and Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation.

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