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New
Translation
Lengthy
Research
EDITOR'S NOTE: Religions event of 1952 include the pnb
. licatlon on Sept. 30 of the revised standard version Bible. Te sup
ply Information on the whole subject of Biblical translations and
texts, Mr. Edward J. Goodspeed has written the followinr article.
Translator himself of a New Testament version which appeared
in 1923 and was incorporated later in The Complete Bible; an
American Translation," and author of some 45 other books. Dr.
Goodspeed is a leading authority on the subject and for 38 years
was a member of the University of Chicago faculty.
By DR. EDWARD J. GOODSPEED
Bible Authority And Translator Written for AP Newsfeatnres
In the whole history of religion there has never been such active
interest in a better English Bible as there Is today. -
Many of us are deeply attached to the old and often quaint lan
cuase of the Bible. We rather resent anyone proposing to alter it.
However, people do alter it through revisions and translations,
with intent of improving it by putting it into modern, more under
standable language.
Can the. English Bible be Im
proved? Should not the reader of
the English Bible be given the
that 400 years of manscript dis
covery and research have given
us? In Britain and America, Jews,
Catholics and Protestants are
loudly saying "yes."
' To begin with, We must not for
get that the Bible was written in
Hebrew and Greek. It was first
put into English in 1382 by John
Wyclif. an Oxford scholar who
translated the Latin version made
by St. Jerome about 400 A.D. The
first complete Bible printed in
English was published by Miles
Coverdale in 1535.
From Originals
Coverdale's - Bible included tran
slations from the original Greek
and Hebrew by William Tyndale,
who was put to death in 1536 for
his work. At that time, putting
the Bible into English still was
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church and state.
The first "licensed English
Bible was published in 1537 by
John Rogers who, like Coverdale,
based his Bible on Tyndale's
translations. By being "licensed,"
. Rogers' Bible could be printed.
sold and read in England, but not
read in church. Two years later,
Coverdale brought out the Great
Bible, a fine large-type, large-
sized book, "authorized for use
In church. The death in 1550 of
Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's
prime minister who sponsored the
auinonzea version, soon pui a stop
to progress of the English Bible,
but Puritans who had taken ref
uge in Switzerland brought out a
revised edition in Geneva in 1560,
the so-called Breeches Bible be
cause' it. says in Gen. 3:7 that
"AiIiwi An9 ITua moT7A fitf trod
leaves together and made them
selves breeches.
. Thiswas a smaller book, to be
read at home, and was printed not
In the old blackletter but in mod
ern Roman type. It had an im
mense circulation, and was the
Bible of Oliver Cromwell's Iron
sides, and of the Pilgrims.
Kew-Fangled Verses
It was divided into the new
fangled verses which proved such
boon that when the Great Bible
was revised in 1568, the verses
were adopted in it too. So many
bishops worked on this revision
v that it was called the Bishop's
v' Bible and it took the place of the
Great Bible for church use.
Now the Catholics began to
translate the Bible. In 1582 Greg
ory Martin, at the Catholic .Eng
lish College in Rheims, France,
brought out his translation of the
- New Testament from the Latin
Vulgate.
. Martin did the Old Testament
as well, but it was not printed
until 1609-10. when the college
had moved to Douai, and the
work is still generally called the
Doual Bible, though it has been
much revised since.
Then in 1611. m resnnn tn an
appeal from a Puritan leader,
King James authorized a group of
scholars to revise the Bishops'
Bible, and they produced in 1611
the famous King James Bible, still
so dear to many hearts, mine in
cluded. .
Spelling Corrected
And when in 1755 Samuel John
son got out his English dictionary
with only one way to spell each
word. Professor Blaney of Oxford
took the King James Bible and
revised all its spelling to agree
with Johnson thousands of
words. It is his Bible with hardly
' variation that passes every
where for the true King James, to
this day.
- In general,' the modern transla
tors have taken full advantage of
the fruit of years of research, in
- Bible manuscripts. Very few trans
lators have yielded to popular, pref
ere nee for a familiar text, no mat
ter now inaccurate.
When in 1929 the coypright on
the American standard version ex
pired, the publishers turned it
over to 'the International Council
of Religious Education, which rep
resented most ox the Protestant
bodies in the United SU-tes.
In 1946 the revised standard ver
sion of the New Testament . ap
peared. It did not go as far as
a revision as some of us had hoped.
but it was an improvement over
the American standard and was
very well received. -
REVISED STANDARD
Meantime the American stand
ard version Old Testament com
mittee kept diligently at work and
has now finished the revised stand
ard version of the Old Testament
which has been combined with the
New Testament to form the. re
vised standard version of the
Bible.
American Catholics took up the
task of revising their English
Bible soon after the Protestants
began their work, proceeding with
less delay. But these later Ameri
can enterprises, Catholic and
Protestants, are simply revisions
not new translations between
which there is a great difference.
And now our Jewish friends are
being- heard from. The Jewish
Publication Society of America
has announced it will proceed with
a new translation of the Old Test
ament and the apocrypha into
modern English.
In Britain a few. years ago, the
Catholic authorities called on a
man of letters, Ronald Knox, to
translate the Bible from the Latin
vulgate into English, which he has
done in a scholarly, rather than a
popular style.
Now the combined Protestant
groups of England, Scotland and
Ireland have formed a committee
to retranslate the whole Bible, in
cluding the apcrypha, into modern
Jngush.
Shovels, Masks
Usedinaeaning
Cyclotron Waste
STT LOUIS (INS) Instead of
mops, they use shovels t nd wear
masks during house cleaning time
in the Washington University Cy
clotron in St, Louis.
The ritual of disposing of waste
atomic material is carried out
every two months ia the back
yard of University Chancellor Ar
thur H. Compton in suburban St.
Louis. A. A. Schulke, engineer in
charge of the cyclotron, says they
use Compton's yard because he is
an atomic scientist and no one else
would want that kind of stuff
around.
Schulke says the Job is not too
dangerous, just one of those com
mon things that have to be done.
like burning waste paper or selling
attic relics.
Shovels are used to dig holes
in the ground where the radio
activated material is buried. The
respiratory masks prevent inhala
tion of active dust which could
prove fatal.
Radioactive liquids present no
problem, Schulke says. They are
diluted in a carrier, ie explains.
which serves as an absorber.. But
the solids like metal and powders
are something else. Some of them
retain their atomic activity for
thousand years. When the Cyclo
tron laboratory finishes with them,
they are buried in Dr. Compton's
yarn.
'Miracle' TB Drug Fails to Bring About
at State Tuberculosis HosDital
Cures
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR.
Staff Writer, The Statesman
They called it a miracle drug.
too soon. It failed to produce the
miracle cures of tuberculosis but
Isonicotinic add (INH) may prove
a boon to asthma patients and
meningitis victims.
That is the report on INH com
ing out of Oregon's Tuberculosis
Hospital, from the TB- ward of
Oregon State Hospital and other
institutions across the country.
Since last winter when INH
splashed into the news as the pro
ducer of healing miracles for tu
berculosis patients, some 40 vic
tims of the stubborn disease have
been treated with it at the tuber
culosis hospital. Another 20 have
received treatment at the TB
ward. .
"It is an important new discov
ery in the right against TB, re
ports Dr. G. C. Bellinger, super
intendent at the TB hospital, "but
it has not produced any genuine
cures." He described the drug as
a powerful ally of other treatment
for the disease.
Claimed Recoveries
Tuberculosis patients through
out the world were thrilled when
two drug companies announced
that isonicotinic acid, produced
under trade names, was produc
ing amazing recoveries for scores
of test patients. - Worried doctors
hastened to warn that the claims
were based on insufficient . evi
dence, that more tests were need
ed, more time needed, that the
drug might not produce the mir
acles. Unfortunately, they . were
right. t
Now, after many more patients
and after several more months of
study, doctors at hospitals treat
ing TB are "beginning to learn the
possibilities and the limitations of
yesterday's miracle drug.
Definite improvement was re
ported in roost patients at the TB
hospital when they were placed
on INH schedules. Doctors there
under the direction ' of Dr. Bel
linger, cautiously inaugurated use
of the drug on a group of five
patients last spring.
On one severe case INH had no
apparent effect.
Patient Worsened
On another the patient felt bet
ter, gained weight (usually a good
omen) and had an Increased ap
petite for the first month of treat
ment Then the patient worsened.
A third case was a long stand
ing persistent disease which had
had streptomycin (still considered
TB's worst enemy). Here too there
was some early gain, lessening of
cough, but all were later lost
again.
Another case Jost weight despite
appetite increase and' a general
improvement, in the x-ray. ..
A fifth, case, far advanced.
showed some initial rallying, but
subsequently lost the gain and
expired.
The original group, though too
few in number to give a legiti
mate test of INH, have set a
pattern surprisingly accurate for
cases that followed. Four more
groups of five patients each were
added to the INH treatment by
May and another 13 were placed
on INH schedules as it was
deemed appropriate since that
time.
Appetites Increase ,
Husky appetites and Increased
weight in INH treated cases was
almost universal, at least in the
early stages. In some, happily, the
results remained, and In a few the
disease was being controlled, ap
parently because of the help of
INH. . '
Doctors at the TB hospital de
tected some interesting sidelights
with the new treatment Asthma
patients improved rapidly when
placed on INH, but as often as on
other progress the asthma later
returned, sometimes as bad i
ever. In nearly all cases patients
had a feeling of well being, felt
that they were getting well though
x-rays and other tests might not
confirm it-
One patient, buoyed by. the Im
proved appetite, a weight gain of
40 pounds and general feeling of
recovery,- has declined all advice
for chest surgery which his doc
tors feel he urgently needs. The
disease remains uncontrolled and
doctors are certain he must sub
mit to surgery if a "Cure is to be
effected. The hope of the new
drugs prompted others throughout
the country to dangerously delay
necessary surgery, doctors report.
Deadly tubercular meningitis,
once almost certainly fatal to its
victims, may find its strongest
enemy in INH, Dr. Bellinger re
ports. Though cures have been ef
fected in recent years through the
use of streptomyacin, INH may
take over completely in the battle
against meningitis. Apparently
INH passes more easily from the
blood stream into the spinal fluid
where the deadly germ lurks.
Study continues in the use of
INH. Dosages are changed in an
effort to find the best amount and
the best method of administering
the drug. . Meanwhile doctors con
tinue to battle tuberculosis with
all their weapons. Still vital is the
remedial surgery, the time hon
ored rest and good diet prescrip
tion and the other chemotheraphy
including streptomyacin, TBI and
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Bicycle Fashions
Set Clothes Style
NEW YORK (INS) The Bicy
cle Information Bureau in New
xorx trunks women should spend
some time this year thanking their
lucky stars for the two-wheeler.
According to the bicycle people,
the gals should be grateful be
cause if It wasn't for bikes, we
wouldn't have, strapless bathing
suits, slacks or two-piece play,
suits.
This is the Diamond Jubilee of
the American Bicycle Industry,
the 75th birthday of the Ameri
can bike. And until the bike made
its appearance, women were lim
ited to two yards of petticoats,
corsets, and bathing suits with at
least 12 yards of material in
tnera.
But then women decided to ride
bicycles, and they couldn't do it
in ordinary costumes, so suddenly
fashion came up with knicker
bockers, a simple shirt, and plain
hats for the cycling lady. That
says the bicycle industry, started
the trend that led to the Bikini
bathing suit.
ITALIAN FILM REPORT "
ROME tf) Italians saw 496
rums last year, according to of
ficial government figures. Of thisj
numDer iu were Italian Elms
an increase of three over the 104
of 1950. In the year 1938 only 45
lianan rums were- projected in
Italian theaters. There were' 389
foreign films exhibited in Italy
last year as compared to 337 for
1350 and 230 for 1838..
TEXTILE BUSINESS BAD
. HONG KONG W w Chinese'"!
tile, makers, say they; .have asked
permission to move 11 textile plants
here tov the Chinese "Nationalist
stronghold of ' Formosa. - They say
pusiness is bad here. .. v ,
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