"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I often meet people who think that C.S. Lewis was English. He wasn’t, he was actually born and raised in Belfast. However, if anyone has heard one of the few remaining recordings of Lewis, they could easily be forgiven for this mistake since he has a remarkably “plummy” English accent.
Below you’ll find YouTube videos containing all the remaining audio of Lewis which I can find…
Nothing about Faith today…I just wanted to share a rather amusing podcast I found from an Englishman living in the United States:
One of my friends sent me an email asking about Bible translations and requesting an introductory post on the subject. Well Ricardo, here you go…
Before we start talking about different translations, let’s begin by considering the language of the original Biblical manuscripts, which are known as “autographs”. In what language were these originals documents written? Despite what Henry Higgins suggests, the Bible was not originally written in English…
So, if it wasn’t English, in what language was the Bible initially written? Well, the original Biblical documents were, in fact, written in several languages. Different languages were used for the Old Testament and New Testament, so let’s look at them in turn…
As we all know, theology always sounds better in an English accent. Below is a video of Dr. Peter Williams,Warden of Tyndale House, giving a lecture on the historicity of the Gospels.
In his lecture he looks at some of the details of the Gospels, such as names and places, and he does a little bit of statistical analysis.
“Theology and statistics?!” I hear you cry?
Wonderful, isn’t it?
Enjoy.
In honour of the Patron Saint of England, here’s a video giving the history of the English language (in ten minutes):