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| Emeritus Professor Donates 1568 Bishop's Bible to Watson Library | |||||||||
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| The Quaker Collection of Watson Library has received a gift of a 1568 Bishops' Bible from Professor Emeritus of Religion T. Canby Jones. | |||||||||
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| T. Canby Jones (born 1921 in Japan to Friends missionary parents) is a son of Thomas E. Jones (1888-1973), who was president of Fisk University, 1926-1946, and of Earlham College, 1946-1958. He graduated from Westtown Friends Boarding School, Haverford College, and Yale University, where he earned divinity and Ph.D. degrees. He served as a Professor of Religion at Wilmington College from 1955 until his retirement in 1987. His book publications include George Fox's Attitude Toward War; A Documentary Study (Friends United Press, 1984), "The Power of the Lord Is Over All": The Pastoral Letters of George Fox (Friends United Press, 1989), and Thomas R. Kelly As I Remember Him (Pendle Hill, 1989). He is a founding member of the Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE), and a charter member of Campus Friends Meeting in Wilmington, Ohio. He is the subject of the book Practiced In The Presence: Essays In Honor of T. Canby Jones (Friends United Press, 1994). |
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This bible belonged to T. Canby Jones's mother's older brother, John Lloyd Balderston (1889-1954). Mr. Balderston acquired it (in the solid English Oak box which still accompanies it) in England in the mid 1920's when he was the London correspondent for the New York World (later the World-Telegram). Mr. Balderston went on to write plays, including Berkeley Square and The Red Planet, and completed his career in Beverly Hills, California, as a Hollywood script-writer. His credits include Gaslight, The Last of the Mohicans, and Dracula (with Bela Lugosi). | ||||||||
| The Bishops' Bible was an English translation of the Holy Bible produced under the authority of the established Church of England during the reign of Elizabeth in 1568. This Bible is sometimes called the "treacle" Bible from Jeremiah viii-22, which reads: "Is there no tryacle in Gilead?". This line in the King James version of 1611 is changed to "balm". | |||||||||
| The widespread popularity of the Calvinistic Geneva Bible (1560) was undermining the authority of the Great Bible in England. In 1564, Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury, organized a revision committee containing some 8 or 9 Bishops, hence the name, Bishops' Bible. | |||||||||
| At the convocation of the Province of Canterbury which met on April 3d, 1571, it was ordered that this Bible should be placed in every cathedral, and that every archbishop, bishop, dean, and other church dignitary should have a copy publicly exposed in the hall or dining room of his home for the use of his servants and strangers. | |||||||||
| With the royal and ecclesiastical authority endorsing it, upon its publication in 1568, it rapidly displaced the Great Bible in the churches. Nineteen editions were printed between 1568 and 1606. It was the official bible of England until 1611. In 1611, the Bishops' Bible was replaced by the King James Version of the Bible as the authorized version of the Church of England | |||||||||
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