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\"...IS THERE NOT TREACLE IN GILEAD...\"

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The Bishops\' Bible is an Englishtranslation of the Bible which was produced under the authority of theestablished Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572,and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Biblethat was completed in 1611.

The Bishop\'s Bible succeeded theGreat Bible of 1539, the first authorized bible in English, and the GenevaBible of 1557–1560.

The thorough Calvinism of the GenevaBible (more evident in the marginal notes than in the translation itself)offended the high-church party of the Church of England, to which almost all ofits bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, whichsought to replace government of the church by bishops (Episcopalian) withgovernment by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539— which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglicanworship — was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament andApocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew,Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Genevatranslation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the\"Bishops\' Bible\".

The promoter of the exercise, and theleading figure in translating was Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Itwas at his instigation that the various sections translated by Parker and hisfellow bishops were followed by their initials in the early editions. Forinstance, at the end of the book of Deuteronomy, we find the initials \"W.E.\",which, according to a letter Parker wrote to Sir William Cecil, stand forWilliam Alley, Bishop of Exeter. Parker tells Cecil that this system was\"to make [the translators] more diligent, as answerable for theirdoings.\" Unhappily, Parker failed to commission anyone to act assupervisory editor for the work completed by the various translators, and wastoo busy to do so himself, and accordingly translation practice varies greatlyfrom book to book. Hence, in most of the Old Testament (as is standard inEnglish Versions) the tetragrammaton YHWH is represented by \"theLORD\", and the Hebrew \"Elohim\" is represented by\"God\". But in the Psalms the practice is the opposite way around. Thebooks that Parker himself worked on are fairly sparingly edited from the textof the Great Bible, while those undertaken by Grindal of London emerged muchcloser to the Geneva text.

The bishops deputed to revise theApocrypha appear to have delivered very little, as the text in these booksreproduce that of the Great Bible broadly the same. As the Apocrypha of theGreat Bible was translated from the Latin Vulgate, the Bishops\' Bible cannotstrictly claim to have been entirely translated from the original tongues.

The Bishops\' Bible was firstpublished in 1568, but was then re-issued in an extensively revised form in1572. In the revision a number of switches were made to the New Testament inthe direction of more \"ecclesiastical\" language (e.g. introducing theterm \"charity\" into I Corinthians 13), but otherwise to bring thetext more into line with that found in the Geneva Bible; and in the OldTestament, the Psalms from the Great Bible were printed alongside those in thenew translation, which had proved impossible to sing. From 1577 the new psalmtranslation was dropped altogether; while further incremental changes were madeto the text of the New Testament in subsequent editions. The Bible had theauthority of the royal warrant, and was the second version appointed to be readaloud in church services (cf. Great Bible, King James Bible). It failed todisplace the Geneva Bible as a domestic Bible to be read at home, but that wasnot its intended purpose. The intention was for it to be used in church as whatwould today be termed a \"pulpit Bible\". The version was more grandiloquentthan the Geneva Bible. The first edition was exceptionally large and included124 full-page illustrations. The second and subsequent editions were rathersmaller, around the same size as the first printing of the King James Bible,and mostly lacked illustrations other than frontispieces and maps. The textlacked most of the notes and cross-references in the Geneva Bible, whichcontained much controversial theology, but which were helpful to people amongwhom the Bible was just beginning to circulate in the vernacular. The lastedition of the complete Bible was issued in 1602,but the New Testament wasreissued until at least 1617.William Fulke published several paralleleditions up to 1633,with the New Testament of the Bishops\' Bible alongsidethe Rheims New Testament, specifically to controvert the latter\'s polemicalannotations.(we currently have examples for sale in our store) The Bishops\' Bible or its New Testament went through over 50editions, whereas the Geneva Bible was reprinted more than 150 times.

The translators of the King JamesBible were instructed to take the 1602 edition of the Bishops\' Bible as theirbasis, although several other existing translations were taken into account.After it was published in 1611, the King James Bible soon took the Bishops\'Bible\'s place as the de facto standard of the Church of England. Laterjudgments of the Bishops\' Bible have not been favorable; David Daniell, in hisimportant edition of William Tyndale\'s New Testament, states that the Bishops\'Bible \"was, and is, not loved. Where it reprints Geneva it is acceptable,but most of the original work is incompetent, both in its scholarship and itsverbosity\". Jack P. Lewis, in his book The Day after Domesday: The Makingof the Bishops\' Bible, notes that unsympathetic reviews of this Bible have beendone. However, \"Granting all the shortcomings eighteenth totwenty-first-century scholarship can find in the Bishops\' Bible, it was animportant stage in moving English people from prohibited Bible reading to beinga Bible-reading people. The revisers labored to give God\'s book to God\'s peoplein a language they could understand. The King James translators did not thinkthey were making a bad translation into a good one, but were making a good onebetter.\"

Unlike Tyndale\'s translations and theGeneva Bible, the Bishops\' Bible has rarely been reprinted. The most availablereprinting of its New Testament portion (minus its marginal notes) can be foundin the fourth column of the New Testament Octapla edited by Luther Weigle,chairman of the translation committee that produced the Revised StandardVersion.

The Bishops\' Bible is also known asthe \"Treacle Bible\", because of its translation of Jeremiah 8:22which reads \"Is there not treacle at Gilead?\", a rendering also foundin several earlier versions as well such as the Great Bible. In the AuthorizedVersion of 1611, \"treacle\" was changed to \"balm\".

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