{"id":7438,"date":"2017-11-16T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2017\/11\/16\/found-in-translation\/"},"modified":"2021-12-10T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:42:31","slug":"found-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/found-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Found in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 November 2017 | Binfield, UK [Victor Hulbert \/ Robin Anthony]&nbsp;What is the common thread of the Reformation? In Reformation Journey, Victor Hulbert and Dejan Stojkovi\u0107 have learnt about massacres and burnings of so called \u2018heretics\u2019, where safety one day may be death the next. Alongside all the other brave actions of men and women of faith, their politics have played a strong part. Yet somehow, in every episode, the Bible has also featured strongly. Waldensian Christians wanted the Bible in their own language, Luther translating the Bible into German actually helped it achieve national identity, and study of the Bible led to strong, life changing convictions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-7433\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a.jpg\" alt=\"found in translation12a\" width=\"250\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a.jpg 1591w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-1100x620.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-700x395.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-900x507.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation12a-560x316.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\" \/><\/a>So, for the final episode of Reformation Journey, we take a look at the Bible. Lynda Baildam, associate Librarian at the Roy Graham library in Binfield, England, is someone who not only loves reading, but is passionate for the texture, the binding, the look of books ancient and modern. She may have ancient Bibles in her historic collection, but how does she go about reading it today?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reformation Journey 7: Found in translation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jun8ynV2c04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Bible had been translated before Luther\u2019s time, but it was the printing that made the difference. Historian, Robin Anthony, shares some insights:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7434\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7.jpg\" alt=\"found in translation7\" width=\"250\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7.jpg 1587w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-1100x620.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-700x395.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-900x508.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation7-560x316.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1587px) 100vw, 1587px\" \/><\/a>A common conception of the Reformation is of the Catholic church hiding all the truth from the people by keeping the Bible in Latin so no-one could read it. Along come the great reformers, who together with the printing press, organise the translation of the Bible and its distribution to the grateful masses, who huddle around the Bible, drinking in its words.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t <em>exactly<\/em> true, but it\u2019s not completely false either. It\u2019s absolutely true that the Reformation and the printing press go hand in hand, but their relationship is complicated, and it\u2019s not always clear whose hand is leading whose. It\u2019s true, that people were grateful to have the Bible and to be able to read it for themselves, but that number of people was rather small, and vernacular bibles were available in the main European languages by 1492.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, the leaders of the Reformation wanted restrictions placed on who could read it: Luther\u2019s attempts at schooling people were aimed towards creating an elite to direct religious and secular society, not to creating people who could read the Bible for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Calvin said that God \u201cwants the bread to be cut for us, the pieces to be put in our mouths, and the chewing to be done for us.\u201d Clearly, that means somebody \u2018higher\u2019 has to do that for you, in Calvin\u2019s case, the preacher. He wanted people to know what God said, but not necessarily directly from the Bible, which is what reformation finally came to mean.<\/p>\n<p>As we learnt in <a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2017\/10\/30\/celebrating-500-years-of-reformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode 5<\/a>, traditionally, the Reformation officially started in Germany with Martin Luther, when he nailed his 95 theses on the Castle Church door, Wittenberg, on 31 October 1517. Those theses spawned a reaction across Germany and ultimately the rest of the world, and that is probably down to the wide variety of media used by the Reformers that helped send their message on its way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-7435\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6.jpg\" alt=\"found in translation6\" width=\"250\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6.jpg 1589w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-1536x869.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-350x198.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-700x396.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-900x509.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-1100x622.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation6-560x317.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1589px) 100vw, 1589px\" \/><\/a>The book industry had been around for about 70 years before Luther came along, and there was a thriving print industry in most cities across Europe. The book, as a concept, was still being played with. This was the period when people started putting in title pages, page numbers, and information about who did the printing. It was an evolving form, but it was also an expensive form because most people still couldn\u2019t afford books. Printing was also heavily controlled and penalties for printing without license could result in losing the print-run, losing your equipment, or being physically punished.<\/p>\n<p>Luther wasn\u2019t even particularly well-placed in Wittenberg, as the nearby city of Leipzig took most of the printing trade. Wittenberg only got its first printer in 1502. But Luther was a man with foresight, and he soon partnered with a number of printers in Wittenberg, who were only too happy to work with a man who was responsible for large print-runs of books, which in some cases, ran into 600 editions, while previous print-runs would only reach double figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7436\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4.jpg\" alt=\"found in translation4\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4.jpg 1591w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-1100x617.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-350x196.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-700x393.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-900x505.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation4-560x314.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The cost for Luther\u2019s New Testament for example, was still fairly prohibitive \u2013 about the cost of a pig ready for slaughter! This meant that only the very well off could afford it. Considering that about 100,000 copies of Luther\u2019s New Testament were printed in Wittenberg alone during Luther\u2019s life, at some point that cost would have come down. Luther\u2019s efforts were responsible for about three million books during his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>While books were important to the spread of the Reformation message, what was probably more important were pamphlets. While most academic books were printed in Latin, Luther\u2019s genius was to also print in German, which meant the audience could be much wider than the academic community. While the cost of a pig was out of the reach of many, the cheapest pamphlet could cost as little as 3-4 hours of work, and some were exchanged for a chicken or a pound of candle wax. This made them very cheap and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>During the Pamphlet wars between Luther and his protagonists in the 1520\u2019s, six thousand publications were distributed, and if each had a print-run of just 1,000, a very conservative estimate, that would be six million pamphlets across the German Empire alone.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the Reformation was, at the very least, heavily dependent on printing for the spreading of its ideas. Equally, the Catholic church also saw the importance of the printing press, and soon began to launch its own broadsides against the Protestants. Both sides became very quickly versed in the art of propaganda, both in print and visual.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the Reformation is primarily down to how well it spread its message. The printing press was, you could say, the social media of the reformation and that tradition continues to this day; committed Christians using every means possible to spread the Good News of the Gospel to as many people as possible. One can equally argue that today\u2019s increasingly secular society aims to penetrate our minds with anything, but the beauty of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-7437\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11.jpg\" alt=\"found in translation11\" width=\"250\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11.jpg 1595w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-1100x619.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/images_news-2017_found_in_translation11-560x315.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1595px) 100vw, 1595px\" \/><\/a>As we conclude this short Reformation series, we accept the challenge to take the Bible, now available in so many languages and myriad translations, and to value it, not just for the sacrifice of those \u2018reformation heroes\u2019 who made it available, but because, it tells the very real story about how \u2018the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us\u2019. (John 1:14) As Lynda shares her tips for reading this very special book, we hope you will also find it to be a special, life changing part of your treasury.&nbsp;[<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire <a href=\"reformation-journey-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reformation Journey series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, editor; Deana Stojkovic, associate editor<br \/>119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/>E-mail: tednews@ted.adventist.org <br \/>Website: www.ted.adventist.org<br \/><em>ted<\/em>NEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 November 2017 | Binfield, UK [Victor Hulbert \/ Robin Anthony]&nbsp;What is the common thread of the Reformation? 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Waldensian Christians wanted the Bible in their own language, Luther translating the Bible into German actually helped it achieve national identity, and study of the Bible led to strong, life changing convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1577,1588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates","category-united-kingdom-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}