Editing Bishops' Bible (section)

==Legacy==
The translators of the [[King James Version]] were instructed to take the 1602 edition of the Bishops' Bible as their basis, although several other existing translations were taken into account. After it was published in 1611, the King James Version soon took the Bishops' Bible's place as the ''de facto'' standard of the Church of England. Later judgments of the Bishops' Bible have not been favorable; David Daniell, in his important edition of [[William Tyndale]]'s [[New Testament]], states that the Bishops' Bible "was, and is, not loved. Where it reprints Geneva it is acceptable, but most of the original work is incompetent, both in its scholarship and its verbosity".<ref>{{cite book
  | last =Daniell
  | first =David
  | title =Tyndale's New Testament
  | publisher =Yale
  | year =1989
  | location =New Haven
  | url =https://archive.org/details/tyndalesnewtesta0000unse
  | isbn =0-300-04419-4
  | url-access =registration
  }}</ref> [[Jack P. Lewis]], in his book ''The Day after Domesday: The Making of the Bishops' Bible'', notes that unsympathetic reviews of this Bible have been done. However, "[G]ranting all the shortcomings eighteenth- to twenty-first-century scholarship can find in the Bishops' Bible, it was an important stage in moving English people from prohibited Bible reading to being a Bible-reading people. The revisers labored to give God's book to God's people in a language they could understand. The King James translators did not think they were making a bad translation into a good one, but were making a good one better."<ref>{{cite book
  | last =Lewis
  | first =Jack P.
  | title =The Day after Domesday: The Making of the Bishops' Bible
  | publisher =Wipf & Stock
  | year =2016
  | location =Eugene
  | pages =137
  | isbn = 978-1-4982-3343-9}}</ref>

Unlike Tyndale's translations and the Geneva Bible, the Bishops' Bible has rarely been reprinted; however, facsimiles are available. The most available reprinting of its New Testament portion (minus its marginal notes) can be found in the fourth column of the ''New Testament Octapla'' edited by [[Luther Weigle]], chairman of the translation committee that produced the [[Revised Standard Version]].<ref>{{cite book
  | editor-last =Weigle
  | editor-first =Luther A.
  | editor-link = Luther A. Weigle
  | title =The New Testament Octapla: Eight English Versions of the New Testament in the Tyndale-King James Tradition
  | publisher =Thomas Nelson
  | year =1962
  | location =New York
  | url =https://archive.org/details/newtestamentocta00weig
  | url-access =registration
  }}</ref>

The Bishops' Bible is also known as the "Treacle Bible", because of its translation of [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] 8:22 which reads "Is there not treacle at [[Gilead]]?", a rendering also found in several earlier versions as well such as the Great Bible.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/GreatBible1540 Great Bible, Jeremiah ch. 8] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626114517/https://archive.org/details/GreatBible1540 |date=June 26, 2015 }}</ref> In the Authorized Version of 1611, "treacle" was changed to "balm", in reference to the [[Balm of Gilead]].
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