Edgar J. Goodspeed

Edgar J. Goodspeed Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (October 23, 1871 – January 13, 1962) was an American theologian, scholar of Greek language Greek and the New Testament, and professor at the University of Chicago. He is noteworthy for his translations of the Bible: The Bible: An American Translation The New Testament: an American Translation (1923), and (with John Merlin Powis Smith) The Bible, An American Translation (1931), the "Goodspeed Bible". Quotes Four hundred years ago the Bible of England was the Vulgate Latin Vulgate. Few men could read it, and fewer women. For knowledge of it ordinary people were dependent upon the clergy, who were themselves none too well acquainted with its meaning. It was at such a time that a young Oxford man, William Tyndale, undertook the task of making a translation of the New Testament directly from the Koine Greek original Greek into the Early Modern English common English of his day, and thus laid the foundation of the Early Modern English Bible translations English Bible.The disfavor with which the medieval church regarded the circulation of the Bible among the people had found expression in a regulation of the Council of Toulouse, passed in 1229 a.d, that no layman should be allowed to have any book of the Bible, especially in a translation, except perhaps the Psalter. The Making of the English New Testament 2nd University of Chicago Press 1929 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Making_of_the_English_New_Testament.html?id=9FDx1NEFz88C&pg=PA1 1 (129 pages; 1st edition 1925) Not a few of the Prophets in Judaism Hebrew prophets experienced times of Religious ecstasy ecstasy, when in Vision (spirituality) visions they felt themselves in the very presence of God, heard him speak, and saw celestial realities. How to Read the Bible John C. Winston Company 1946 https://books.google.com/books?id=_qVbAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=ecstasy 189 (244 pages) Quotes about Edgar J. Goodspeed Devotion to the Bible remains an underappreciated aspect of American religious life partly because it fails to generate controversy. This essay opens a window onto America's relationship with the Bible by exploring a controversial moment in the Bible Belt history of the Bible in America: the public reception of University of Chicago professor Edgar J. Goodspeed's American Translation (1923). Initially, at least, most Americans flatly rejected Goodspeed's impeccably credentialed attempt to cast the language of the Bible in contemporary “American” English. Accusations of the professor's irreligion, bad taste, vulgarity, and crass modernity emerged from nearly every quarter of the Protestant establishment (with the exception of some card-carrying theological modernists), testifying to a widespread but unexplored attachment to the notion of a traditional Bible in the early twentieth century. By examining this barrage of reaction, “Monkeying with the Bible” argues that Protestants, along with some others in 1920s America, believed that traditional biblical language was among the forces that helped stabilize the development of American civilization. R. Bryan Bademan, "Monkeying with the Bible": Edgard J. Goodspeed's American Translation Religion and American Culture 16 1 Winter 2006 55–93 https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.55 10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.55 External links Author:Edgar Johnson Goodspeed The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection University of Chicago Library https://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/collection.php Category:1871 births Category:1962 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Biblical scholars Category:Theologians from Illinois Category:Translators from the United States Category:University of Chicago alumni