Redemption! (6 of 8)
Series: Ruth: The Far Reach of the Love of God
Wyman Richardson
Ruth 3
Read Ruth 3
Oddly enough, our chapter made the news recently. On May 12, 2015, a BBC article entitled ''Rare 1611 'Great She Bible' found in Lancashire church'' tells of a British church's discovery of a most interesting Bible in their church.
A rare 400-year-old Bible worth about £50,000 has been discovered in a Lancashire village church.
Printed in 1611 and known as the ''Great She Bible'', it is one of the earliest known copies of the King James Version (KJV) of the Christian holy book.
It will be displayed at St Mary's Parish Church in Gisburn on Saturday.
The Reverend Anderson Jeremiah and the Reverend Alexander Baker found the old book following their appointment at the church last August.
It is called a ''She Bible'' because Chapter 3, Verse 15 of the Book of Ruth mistakenly reads: ''She went into the city''.
Thought to be typographical mistake, this verse was changed from another KJV edition which said ''He''.
The Bible has been assessed and authenticated by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association.
Only a handful of the ''She Bibles'' still exist. Oxford and Cambridge Universities have one, as do Salisbury, Exeter and Durham cathedrals.
Strange, no? The Hebrew text says that ''he'' went into the city in Ruth 3:15, whereas the context clearly demands that is was ''she'' who went into the city. So this Great She Bible is so named because of a translation issue surrounding a particular part of a particular verse in Ruth 3. It is humorous, really, because the great scandal of the chapter is not that she left the threshing floor and went into the city but rather that she, Ruth, left the city and came to the threshing floor!
This is a rather eyebrow-raising chapter, and a profoundly important one, for in Ruth 3 Ruth does something that, if taken the wrong way, could have seriously backfired and put her in a very dangerous situation ...
Series: Ruth: The Far Reach of the Love of God
Wyman Richardson
Ruth 3
Read Ruth 3
Oddly enough, our chapter made the news recently. On May 12, 2015, a BBC article entitled ''Rare 1611 'Great She Bible' found in Lancashire church'' tells of a British church's discovery of a most interesting Bible in their church.
A rare 400-year-old Bible worth about £50,000 has been discovered in a Lancashire village church.
Printed in 1611 and known as the ''Great She Bible'', it is one of the earliest known copies of the King James Version (KJV) of the Christian holy book.
It will be displayed at St Mary's Parish Church in Gisburn on Saturday.
The Reverend Anderson Jeremiah and the Reverend Alexander Baker found the old book following their appointment at the church last August.
It is called a ''She Bible'' because Chapter 3, Verse 15 of the Book of Ruth mistakenly reads: ''She went into the city''.
Thought to be typographical mistake, this verse was changed from another KJV edition which said ''He''.
The Bible has been assessed and authenticated by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association.
Only a handful of the ''She Bibles'' still exist. Oxford and Cambridge Universities have one, as do Salisbury, Exeter and Durham cathedrals.
Strange, no? The Hebrew text says that ''he'' went into the city in Ruth 3:15, whereas the context clearly demands that is was ''she'' who went into the city. So this Great She Bible is so named because of a translation issue surrounding a particular part of a particular verse in Ruth 3. It is humorous, really, because the great scandal of the chapter is not that she left the threshing floor and went into the city but rather that she, Ruth, left the city and came to the threshing floor!
This is a rather eyebrow-raising chapter, and a profoundly important one, for in Ruth 3 Ruth does something that, if taken the wrong way, could have seriously backfired and put her in a very dangerous situation ...
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