[ArrogantBustard]

You're the one ranting about Catholics not wanting the Bible translated into the common language, without any knowledge of Church history.


Work on the translation began in the 1570s; political trouble and occasional lack of funds caused it to be suspended from time to time. The New Testament was published in 1578; the Old Testament took rather longer. The entire Bible was published in 1609, two years before the "Authorised Version".

OBTW, that was hardly the first time the Catholic Church had the Bible translated into the "Common" language, so that it could be read by as many of the faithful as could read. Have you any idea when that was first done, and which languages were involved?

[The Right Stuff]

I just read something interesting on the translation of the OT into Greek from Aramaic - supposedly there were 72 rabbis sequestered on some island, they each worked on a translation and they all supposedly ended up exactly alike - word for word.

Or, something like that.