Draft:Bodleian Bishops' Bible
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History
[edit]The Bodleian Bishops' Bible is one of the few remaining artifacts from the King James Bible translators that exist today. It is a Bishops' Bible whose history began in 1602 when it was printed. Later, at the Hampton Court Conference in 1604, John Rainolds presented the idea of a new translation, which led to King James I commissioning the King James Version. King James I bought "40. large churchbibles for the translators",[1] one of which was this Bodleian Bishops' Bible.
The Bodleian Library acquired this 1602 Bishops' Bible at Oxford University in 1646, where it is still held today.[2][3] A photoscan version of the Bodleian Bishops' Bible has been put online by the Bodleian Library. It was originally cataloged as "Bib. Eng. 1602 b. 1" before later being changed to "Arch. A b. 18."[3]
Deuteronomy 21:22
[edit]One notable verse within this Bodleian Bishops' Bible is Deuteronomy 21:22. Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church has stated that the current reading of Deuteronomy 21:22 in the King James Version of the Bible is wrong.
"¶ And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:" (KJV 1900 PCE)
"If a man haue committed a trespasse worthy of death, and is put to death for it, and thou hangest hym on tree" (Bishops' Bible 1568)
"If a man haue committed a trespasse worthie of death, and is put to death for it, and thou hangest him on tree:" (Bishops' Bible 1602)
The words "he be to be" in the KJV are the words that Steven Anderson questions, saying the "to be" is a typographical error.[4][5] In a response video to Mark Ward, Anderson corrects Mark Ward's use of the Bodleian Bishops' Bible and shows how it agrees with him rather than the established text of the Authorized Version. The verse in the Bodleian Bishops' Bible (with the KJV translators' notes) is as follows:
"And If a man haue committed a
trespassesinne worthie of death, andishe be put to deathfor it, and thou hangesthim on a tree:"
The Bodleian Bishops' Bible doesn't have the "to be", but simply "he be put to death". Some take this (such as with Anderson) as proof that the current reading of the King James Bible is wrong, while others contend that since this Bodleian Bishops' Bible was simply used in the creation process of the KJV, it cannot completely prove one way or the other.
References
[edit]- ^ Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Eng. d. 2705, fols. 1-2.
- ^ Berg, Timothy (2023-12-09). "A Newly Digitized Bible Reveals the Origins of the King James Version | Timothy Berg". Text & Canon Institute. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ a b Vance, Laurence (2022). King James, His Bible, and Its Translators (3rd ed.). Vance Publications. pp. 100–101. ISBN 9781737544326.
- ^ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ "Response to Mark Ward on Deuteronomy 21:22 (12/7/2023) - FaithfulWord.app". faithfulwordapp.com. Retrieved 2024-07-11.