the Venerable Bede was a monk who wrote a dubious history of Britain. I think Wycliffe was the guy who helped translate the Latin Bible into the English Vernacular. I don't know who finished his work?

I figured the cat was named after the Venerable Bede.

No idea for either.

I read Bede in Latin in my sophomore year of college and Wycliffe in grad school because one of my profs was into that sorta thing, though I wouldn't call myself well versed in either.

And then, there is the long-lost second cousin - famous for all the cartoon - Bede Boop.

Nope and nope. But then again, I'm just a wrench burner and beam tweaker. Used to be a tron-chaser on whirly-flopters.

Tony.

I only got it because of your extra credit question. Had you left it off, I would not have known oddly enough.

Don't enter me though, as I didn't actually know the answer to the actual question.

Don't know Bede. Wycliffe has a whole group named after him whose mission is to translate the bible into every language.

Yes & Yes.

I learned about the Venerable Bede from "The Name of the Rose".

Tyndale thought English people should read the Bible themselves.
The Church of Rome disagreed.

I suppose I am not well versed in literature. I also immediately thought of Jim Bede; BD-5 and BD-5J.

St. Bede.

There's a Catholic grade school here named after him.

He was mentioned by The Doctor (Tom Baker) in Doctor Who where, upon landing in Victorian London he talked about sharing a salmon with The Venerable Bede at that very spot centuries earlier.

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The River Fleet was a largely underground river that emptied into the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge in London. The Fourth Doctor knew its exact course, as he had once caught a salmon there with the Venerable Bede. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

I think early translations into English go roughly like this;
Dr. Bede
Wycliffe
"Geneva" Bible
"Bishop's" Bible
King James Bible.
Perhaps Tyndale should get credit for a partial.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Years ago, a guy named Jim Bede was selling kit-planes. Build your own jet.

That's where I was going. ;-)

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." Pete Townshend, from "Take Me I'm Yours" on the Iron Man soundtrack Closing words of Bede's history of England.

I'd heard of Wycliffe, but had no idea who finished the translation.

Yes, I know who the Venerable Bede was. English monk and scholar. Did not know who Wycliffe was, until now.

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Originally posted by mrbill345:
1. Yes - Venerable Bede known as the Father of English History.

2. John Wycliffe - translated the Bible into English, was declared a heretic. He was actually mentioned in an episode of PBS's Secrets of the Dead called the Battle for the Bible.

"John Wycliffe" immediately sprang to mind for me, but I couldn't remember exactly why. We spent some time talking about him in Catholic school is what it was.

I thought I knew the answer to the second question, but I was wrong. It appears that the second Wycliffe translation was by John Purvey.
BTW, there is still today an organization called Wycliffe Bible Translators, who are attempting to translate the Bible into all remaining tongues that do not yet have a translation. We know some missionaries who are part of that effort.

Regarding Tyndall: he should get more than partial credit; I understand that significant sections of the KJV are pretty much word-for-word from Tyndall.

I recommend as a good read "God's Secretaries", the story of the committee that wrote the King James Version. A number of them met gruesome ends as political/religious tides changed.

IMHO there are two incomparably great works done by committees: the KJV and the US Constitution.

I knew who Bede was, but I am something a history buff. Wycliffe sounded familiar but couldn't place him without looking him up.

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