Lectures on the Origin and History of the Bible
Document Type
Lecture
Files
Date
1916
Summary
A number of the manuscripts in this collection were organized into numbered lectures. Unfortunately, these did not include lectures 1 and 2. One manuscript, which curiously begins with “Results,” could be the basis for Lecture 1. It introduces the idea that “the Bible” is not a fully finished final document revealed as Scripture at birth, but rather is a text with a long history of creation, and, in particular with the English Bible, a long history tied to translation.
This leads quite naturally to another manuscript, which starts with a question about the challenges of translation and moves from there into details about the challenges of “textual criticism.”. This could be lecture 2. And this lecture in turn leads into a manuscript identified as “lecture 3” that delves into detail on modern (c. 1900) textual criticism.
To complicate matters, in addition to the manuscript that begins with “Results,” were several other separate manuscripts, all of which deal with various aspects to the history of the translation and birth of the English Bible. (1) “Septuagint” (2) “Historical Setting of the Translation,” which includes two pages of important dates (3) “John Wycliffe” (4) “Tyndale” (5) “Coverdale’s Bible” (6) “Important Dates” (7) “Outline of Points on the English Bible”
These have been assembled by Davis Baird into a single narrative. This clearly is not the lecture Earl Davis wrote, but it does bring these various manuscripts together together in a sensible way.
The primary downloadable document contains the original document followed by the transcription. The bottom of each item page also features the primary document as an embedded pdf for browsing.
Curated and transcribed by Davis Baird. Item description slightly adapted from text written by Davis Baird.
Keywords
Earl Clement Davis, sermons, minister, Unitarianism, religion, Bible
Recommended Citation
Davis, Earl Clement and Baird, Davis, "Lecture I: The English Bible" (1916). Lectures on the Origin and History of the Bible. 2.
https://commons.clarku.edu/origin_bible/2
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