INK AND BLOOD

I just got the oppertunity to go to a treveling exhibit called Ink and Blood: The Dead Sea scrolls to the English bible. Amazing. If you ever get the chance go and see this, it will give you such a heart of thankfulness and gratitude for the price that was paid so we could have a bible in our homes (boy i hope we read 'em like we should!) Oh that we would get a heart like Wycliffe and Tyndale for the Word of the Living God. inkandblood.com i think is the website it really is amazing to see.

David, thank you for this post and this link!!I live in Ky. as well. Still a ways from Lexington, but still we could make a day of it.The story of Tyndale is one of my favorites. And I just got done reading/researching William Carey who translated the bible and other books into India's native language (and the suffering he and his family endured to press on in this undertaking).In Christ, Chanin

David, again thank you for mentioning this. My family and I went to see Ink and Blood yesterday. What a blessing, it was awesome!It coincided with everything i've been reading about (and watching) this year. it made everything much more real.We should be so thankful for the many men and women who layed down their lives for the spreading of the gospel in print.I developed a fascination for Tyndale and this only solidified it more. I thought it was fascinating to learn that the king James is almost all Tyndale. Tyndale did much that he did not get credit for.If anyone can get to this exhibit, it is definitely worth seeing the actual pieces of the dead sea scrolls.www.inkandblood.comIn Him, Chanin

Boy, now you have done it... :-D Got me searching out flights, travel... Have a free round trip, could get close (SDF airport) looks like another jump of 80 miles or so to the exhibit... hmmmmThis looks just incredible, thanks you guy's (and gals) :-P . Trying to find out where the exhibit is heading beyond there, looks like the next stop is in South Carolina, couldn't find much after that... hmmmm, I know Greg loves to fly, :-?

Hi ChaninHave you read William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell? It is a book of amazing scholarship and insight. I think is the best researched biography that I have ever read.

Hi Ron,I actually saw that biography at the end of the exhibit in the "gift shop". I picked it up but didn't buy it because I had already read another biography (Heroes of the Faith series). But now i wish I had.One thing I was very happy to find was a copy of Tyndale's "The Obedience of the Christian Man". I had been wondering if it was in print anymore - and yes! i found it there. This copy of "Obedience" is edited and introduced by David Daniell, as well. I like his intro so much that now i wish I had bought his version of Tyndale's biogrpahy.There was also a slim book that had some selected writings from Tyndales works, inluding "The Parable of the Wicked Mammon" - which I woud like to buy one day.Arielle bought a Geneva Bible (paper back) which is also called the Pilgrim's Bible :-) We found out that the original Geneva Bible's (if you can find one) are sold for about 3 million dollars today. The printing and artwork were extraordinary and were personalized by the printer. There was a live demonstration on the Geneva press.I cannot understand why I am so drawn to all of this. I am fascinated with the reformers and long to see what was not yet reformed, come to be.In Him, Chanin

One thing I was very happy to find was a copy of Tyndale's "The Obedience of the Christian Man". I had been wondering if it was in print anymore - and yes! i found it there. This copy of "Obedience" is edited and introduced by David Daniell, as well. I like his intro so much that now i wish I had bought his version of Tyndale's biogrpahy.There was also a slim book that had some selected writings from Tyndales works, inluding "The Parable of the Wicked Mammon" - which I woud like to buy one day.ChaninIf you can read the David Daniell biography first I would recommend it. Tyndale had studied 'rhetoric' at universtity; Daniell will tell you what subjects he studied!!! The result of this was an ability, now almost completely lost, of holding a series of clauses and sub-clauses (and sometimes sub-sub-clauses) in the mind while never losing sight of the destination. This is part of Tyndale's genius and part of the reason why it is now so difficult for modern readers to read Ephesians 1 and make sense of it.This tight logic and power of rhetoric is fundamental to Tyndale and fundamental to his reasoning processes. The writings you mention above are classic examples of his art, but extremely difficult to follow to modern minds which are used to having commercial breaks every 10 minutes! The logical processes of Tyndale and his age (Walter Raleigh is another example) are beautiful to behold... for a mathematician, but a little abstruse for the rest of us.John Wesley, incidentally, taught logic at university and had the same ability to hold to the destination while taking in sub-points.As an Englishman, Tyndale is my all time hero!There is a pdf version of The Parable of the Wicked Mammon. I'll comment on the Geneva Bible in another post.

just fyi, there is a site www.greatsite.com that deals in the bibles that are at ink and blood, there was a handwirtten wycliffe(my fav!)on there, it is original for 2.75 million dollars. there are many other also. i get to go to inka and blood again next week!! blesings dave