"Four hundred years ago the Bible of England was the . 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 into the , and thus laid the foundation of the . The disfavor with which the medieval church regarded the circulation of the Bible among the people had found expression in a regulation of the , passed in 1229 , that no layman should be allowed to have any book of the Bible, especially in a translation, except perhaps the ."
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Edgar J. Goodspeed
(October 23, 1871 – January 13, 1962) was an American theologian, scholar of and the New Testament, and professor at the University of Chicago. He is noteworthy for his translations of the Bible: ' (1923), and (with ) The Bible, An American Translation (1931), the "Goodspeed Bible".
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