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MARCUS BACH founder
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THE LETTER
dear friend of the fellowship
for the past two months I1 have been working under a challenge perhaps a dare would be a
better way of putting it the dare was this the preparation of a personalized essay on THE
BIBLE AND 1I
the title was enough to tantalize anyone and it wouldnt let me go the more I1 got into it
the more it took on the form of an autobiography a research narrative even an unfinished
symphony
it is no easy assignment to write about the bible and what it actually means in ones life think
about it for a moment there is aabsoonngg that says I 1 love to tell the story
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but when you begin
telling it you may find elements that are highly controversial there is a chance of being both
loved and misunderstood at certain points you will realize the story cannot be written without
hidden meanings and overtones revolving around inescapable adventures in ones spiritual quest
and when you get into writing your own THE BIBLE AND 1I and dare to be honest about it
there is no ggrreeaatteenr challenge than to stick to the job and get it done
well I1 dont know whether a piece of writing is ever really done As far as this attempt is con-cerned
THE BIBLE AND I1 will appear in three installments As you know FSU is planning to
publish a series of LITTLE BOOKS ON LIFELONG LEARNING I1 would hope that THE BIBLE
AND I1 would serve as good material for this venture as well as for study group matter
you will be the best judge of all this your reception through the years your support and encour-agement
have always provided answers in a telephone talk just the other evening with a long-time
reader in hawaii the woman said your research has been one of the joys of my life
I1 used to listen to your university broadcasts in the midwest and I1 always said that you were
not telling us what to believe but explaining what others believed and letting us form our own
conclusions
there are those in our readership who are excellent literary critics there are those who are the
most gracious of commentators the most selfless of supporters the best of iinnssppiriartiaotniiostns
I1 simply had to take the dare on THE BIBLE AND 1I and I1 know you will find responses in your
own thoughts about the bible and you as you think about your own sharing and experiences
in the field of spiritual understanding
yours for the fellowship
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I1 could feel the reign when he said let the people
tremble I1 was shaken when he came to god
sitteth between the cchheerruubbiimmss 1I could see the scene
as clear as I1 saw the mitzi and the beard and when
he quoted let the earth be moved I1 felt the
tremor
no wonder my mother never allowed me to touch
the family bible it was too charged with pastoral
power I1 remember how she lectured my dad the
time he entertained several of his business partners
in the parlor and one of them set his beer stein on
the holy book that frightened even me
my mother gave me my first bible actually it was
just the new testament the old testament had
some shockers in it that were reserved for grown-ups
my new testament edition was beautifully
illustrated with pictures of the holy land and the
holy family and all of the sayings of jesus printed
in red jesus was always shown as gentle jesus was
always kind jesus was the saviour who had died
for all mankind the rhyme helped me to remember
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THE LESSON and THE LEARNING
SPIRITUAL understanding BY WAY OF THE BIBLE AND I1
1
THE BIBLE
dust off the bible the preacher is coming
in the light of today the words are as archaic as
crank up the car were off on a trip but way
back when when cars had to be cranked and the
bible was sacrosanct the words dust off the bible
were part of the life of my time in the days of my
youth when my mother alerted my sister to the
dusting job that did not mean we never read the
holy book it merely meant that we rarely opened
the family bible the huge expensive leather bound
tome that had its sacred solitary place on the oval
antique table in the parlor a ttiillttttoopp table with a
spotless white doily and a little crystal vase with a
fresh flower whenever flowers were fresh in our
tiny wisconsin town in winter an artificial rose
would serve
THE PARLOR BIBLE
trouble was one didnt always know in advance
when the preacher was embarking on his pastoral
call you could bet on his visit however because
it was part of his job and in a town of 1600 where
everyone was related by blood or gossip news tra-veled
fast mental telepathy was taken for granted
and the telephone operator who had her ear to the
switchboard was the town informer a woman to
be loved and hated
in my six year old mind the preachers coming was
always a major event like the coming of santa
claus only solemner much solemner even the
beard was solemner black instead of white wirey
not the kind you would want to touch jerk maybe
if you had the courage but when you actually saw
this man of god herr pastor or herr pfarrer as he
was called a stout dominating heavily spectacled
man with a black mitzi on his head and fire in his
eyes and the way he sat there as if he owned the
ccooppppeerrssttuuddddeedd bbllaacckklleeaatthheerr chair you kept your
distance he wasnt the let the little children come
unto me kind he was strong and stern and every-body
knew that god and he had something going
between them no matter what tragedy or need might
befall our little sheltered german town whats more
he was my uncle on my mothers side
I1 felt his godlike strength especially whenever my
mother handed him the parlor bible this was part
of the dramatic inclusion in his visit she placed
the heavy morocco leather volume in his hands and
he took it as if he had written it he was moses
and the commandments he was david and the
psalms when he read psalm 99 the lord rreeiiggnth
ieiet tahe
I1 had never
known there were other versions of the bible than
the king james which was printed by the grace
of god in england in 1611 herr pastor was a stickler
for this authorized version but he wanted us to
know there were other translations so that we could
properly protect ourselves against them to make
things even worse his training had been in germany
in the field of biblical criticism and though he never
mentioned it everyone in town recognized his know-ledge
and stood in awe of it as if the fact itself was
part of holy writ
BIBLE VERSIONS
this was where my fellow catechumen johnny
schmitz came in and where our lives were changed
johnny a likeable smart aalleeoce son of a local doctor
had the chair next to me and from the very start
of herr pastors mention of versions johnny nudged
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in those days of light and innocence though I1 heard
a good deal about evangelical missionary work and
how even the catholics in town needed to be saved
jesus as I1 privately got to know him didnt seem
to care which church you belonged to or where
you lived or whether your uncle happened to be
a preacher or not from what I1 could make out
from thhee pictures and the red letter text he was a
lonely man who would have felt most at home just
walking in the hills along the wisconsin river quiet-like
especially in the spring when the first crocus
pushed their heads through the melting snow and
there were signs of lilies growing in the fields
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THE BIBLE VERSIONS
dont forget your bible its catechism time
B it was that period in my life when
elementary school was boring and I1
was ready for my freshman year paren-tal
guidance was irksome because I1
felt I1 knew more about life than my
parents realized and an impending year
of saturday mornings in the clammy basement of
our red brick church was something I1 could have
done without to be tied down every saturday
until next years eastertide seemed a penalty for
having been born in an orthodox christian home
it was catechism time puberty time a term
which wasnt used much because it sounded like a
dirty word
in view of my role as a catechumen I1 had now been
entrusted with the complete king james version of
the bible it was always in the packsack of my bike
when my mother hurried me off for the eight am
to noon saturday sessions with herr pastor and
ttwweennttyytthhrreeee other kids my age
catechetical questions spun in my head with the spin-ning
bicycle wheels
where do you find the ten commandments
where in the bible is the prophecy of the com-ing
of christ
the promise of salvation
the good samaritan
recite for me pauls sermon on mars hill
what is your only comfort in life and
in death
before we could reach our holy week examination
and be admitted to church membership there were
exactly a hundred questions and answers in the
heidelberg catechism to be memorized and another
hundred based on the king james version that had
to be repeated the pastor insisted on text and
number and word perfect responses recited loud
and clear so that when the time came for the bbrriee
fung the oral public examination the congregation
of the lord could hear the assignments were no
easier for me just because herr pfarrer was my uncle
they were if anything tougher for he made it clear
that his discipline like rain from heaven fell on
everyone alike we teenaged catechumens were
hostages on probation subject to a law as immutable
as gravity and as unrelenting as the penalties of sin
it wasnt actually the questions or the memorization
that bothered me it was the versions
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wwpe had every virgin down pat from
the warning against the catholic douai version to
the american revised versions which were coming
in strong at the time we learned about the parallel
bible version because it included the aprocrpha
the coverdale bible the wycliff bible luthers
bible the bible of the cmMooorrrmmmooonnnsss and any number
of versions of the bible that were plagarized by
liberal christians like the unitarians and some new
thought groups to say nothing about the free
thinkers who had their own private meeting hall
in our home town johnny and I1 were far and away
the experts on the subject and every nudge at the
word versions was another feather in our fun and
frolic time as the days approached when we would
be questioned in this field at the ultimate exam
the lliiffeecchhaannggeerr came during an unforgettable satur-day
morning during lenten season when herr pastor
brought his personal study bible to class and asked
us to gather round and look at it promising us he
would read the 23rd psalm not from the king james
version but from his student days bible a version
called the hexaglot the hexaglot a book as large
and heavy as our family bible and definitely more
charged with power between its worn leather covers
than our parlor virgin on its doily with the rose
there was no nudging or giggling now
however when the aging hands of the
pastor opened the pages of the hexa-glot
for in this remarkable edition
the entire bible lay spread out before
us printed in six columns side by side
each column in a different language
standing on tiptoe the better to see over
each others shoulders we watched in awe and
wonder as herr pastor bent his bearded face over
the leathery pages touched his mitzi reverently
adjusted his spectacles and read for us the lord
is
my shepherd in its entirety in hebrew greek
latin english german and french
THE HEXAGLOT
in those moments we felt his greatness in the soft-ness
of his voice in a lonely longing in languages we
could not understand but where the words were
like music filling us with feeling and a friendly fear
I1 was never to forget how johnny and I1 rode our
bikes home from the lenten saturday meeting
ashamed that we had made fun about herr pastors
pprroonnoouunncciiaattiioonn of versions and how we asked
ourselves who else in town could have read six lan-guages
as fluently as that well johnny figured
maybe the catholic priest could have done it but
who could say iiinnnkaismuch as the gap between our
church and the roman catholics was so wide and
since they had the douai bible and we the king
james version
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me with his elbow and giggled and grinned the
pastor really dressed him down for that and nearly
got me into trouble because I1 felt like giggling too
why because the way my pastor uncle with his
teutonic accent said versions made it sound
like virgins and that was a secret word between
johnny and me having all sorts of interesting conno-tations
THE
VINEYARD and that was why ttthhhrooouuuggghhhoouutt the year
bidle of saturdays johnny and I1 became
absolute experts in the memorization
of the various versions of the bible
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and now the hexaglot
my pastor uncle he died when I1 was a senior in
high school I1 tolled the bell at his funeral service
when the coffin was carried to the bbllaacckkwindowed
hearse
windowed
as the 82 tones of the bell counted his age
and I1 remembered particularly how after our con-firmation
and catechetical exam he had put his
arms around johnny and me pressing us closely
and complimenting us on how well we had answered
the questions in the Bbbbrnrriiieeeeffffuuuinnnngggg especially the difficult
ones that centered around bible versions
I1 often wondered what herr pastor would have said
about the countless new versions that appeared since
his demise the interpreters bible the lamsa bible
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Pfl I1AL
in
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firmation
I1 can pinpoint the
time and place for a radical transition in my thinking
a chilly winter night in my lonely dormitory room
at the mission house seminary twenty miles from
the nearest town sheboygan wisconsin my mother
had won over my dad and me with her dream of my
becoming a minister she won by teaming up logic
with her indomitable faith she had one thing in
common with professor stamm and made the most of
it they both felt that talented though I1 might have
been and much as I1 loved the instrument I1 would
never be a top fiddler especially when there were
wWuunnddeerrkkiinnddeerr out there in the world who were
making music like old masters at six when I1 was now
going on twenty and always there was the post-humous
influence of my pastor uncle guiding my
spiritual call
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the bible in modern language the ultra modern
bible called THE WORD the marvelous anchor bible
that seemed intent on exhausting the meaning and
references of every text and passage in the entire
hexaglot and I1 also wondered what the priest would
have said inasmuch as the revered douai edition has
been replaced in roman catholicism by the new
american version the jerusalem bible and the one so
happily titled THE GOOD NEWS
preacher and priest both gone both much loved
by their respective flocks too bad they didnt know
each other better in the days when johnny and I1
were young we might have better understood both
versions of their beliefs
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THE BIBLE AND ITS CHURCHES
the bible speaks for god and the churches speak
for the bible
too bad that herr pastor was gone
for his opinion on the statement would
have been appreciated to whom else
could I1 turn for an insight into this
bible and churches saying that had
been fixed in my mind by a professed
atheist old professor stamm head of the free
thinkers society in our home town
chances are I1 would never have been permitted to
be intimate with herr stamm but for the fact that
he was a professional musician an emigre from
germany about the time my dad put a violin under
my ttwweellvveeyyeeaarroolldd chin hoping I1 would be the
virtuoso he had aspired to be without success
now a senior in high school and first violinist in
the orchestra I1 owed a great deal to the stern and
dreamy stamm a master of the fiddle my instructor
and inspiration for some four years how I1 loved to
hear him play hypnotizing himself and me by his
music often in the sentimental aftermath of a3
lesson period he would touch upon thoughts con-cerning
his humanistic response to life true he may
have been searching me out because of my senti-mentality
about god and nature and what I1 planned
to do with my life but I1 think he was also simply
reflecting aloud about his convictions and giving
them an airing as a matter of course his saying about
the bible and the churches was however something
he seemed to want to get off his chest whether I1
understood it or not
I1 liked the way he quietly queried me about my
ppaassttoorruunnccllee whom he had truly admired for his
influence in the community and whom he bemoaned
for his encased belief in orthodox evangelicalism
herr stamm may have felt the same way about my
mother but she was never discussed mostly because
he was too much of a gentleman and was also some-what
on probation with her inasmuch as my dad and
he were card partners the best in town when it came
to the intricate german game called skat
looking back at the mmuullttiiiimmaaggeess of hometown and
my destiny career wise I1 can trace the major turning
point in my life straight back to herr stamms am-biguous
phrase the bible speaks for god and the
churches speak for the bible
this winter night turning point came during my
second seminary year when I1 returned to the mission
house from a christmas at home vacation where I1
had played several solos at the holy eve services
that event became ever more significant as I1 recalled
it now for it involved an added christmas miracle
as far as hometown was concerned herr stamm
attended the service the long haired trim bearded
ever bemused skeptic had come to church of his
own free will or perhaps my fathers nudging there
he sat next to my agnostic dad who sat next to my
zealous evangelical mother who sat next to the
presence of god graciously so for following the
benediction and the haunting echoes of silent night
she invited herr stamm to our home for christmas
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patisserie and the wassail bowl I1 recalled now how
deep my affection for him when he put his arm
around me that night commented pleasantly on
how I1 had performed my solos and whispered in
my ear jyuunnggee dont neglect your kreutzer studies
no matter what kind of a preacher you turn out to
be stay with them the kreutzer exercises were
as fundamental to him as the family bible had been
to our sainted herr pastor whats more my aunt
selma was also at our wassail bowl festivity she
was the church organist having never missed a sun-day
service in thirty years she respected stamms
musical credentials and she admired and envied him
for his luxuriant growth of silvery hair that flowed
to his shoulders samson like aunt selma the only
spinster in our entire relationship had a fear of
going bald she once remarked to my mother that
for god to give such an abundance of hair to an
unbeliever was unbelievable here she was touching
glasses with herr stamm in a more than merry mood
the climax of the evening came when the wassail
bowls generous outpourings had been slyly regulated
by my father so that even mother and aunt selma
were slightly lighted up and herr stamm was in a
most convivial mood it was then my dad suggested
that professor play the two numbers I1 had performed
at the service and that aunt selma accompany
stamm at the piano such a combination would have
been unthinkable under ordinary circumstances
but my dads timing was so adroit as he led off glass
uplifted to the music room that we simply followed
his star in no time at all he had my violin out of its
case and into stamms hands and was courteously
seating aunt selma on the piano bench with masse
nets thais and schuberts ave ahmloaarrriiiaaa all neatly
propped on the baldwin upright
A holier night a more beautiful concert would as
far as I1 was concerned never be heard again that
my violin should carry such a soul and sense of
feeling that herr stamm should walk quietly about
with half closed eyes as he played lonely like and
yet enraptured as it were by presences with whom
he alone communicated left me stranded far beyond
my emotional reach my mother was actually in
tears aunt selma remained at the keyboard so
deeply moved that when herr stamm came out of
his trance and gently touched her shoulder thanking
her for so excellent an accompaniment she seemed
all but ready to fall into his arms
the silence of that silent night spoke
to me now while the shimmering snow
on the dormitory window the be
clouded moonlit night sang of faith in
terms of something unintimidated by
academic walls or denominational
barriers here in my silent ssnnoowwedeidn room monasti-cally
incarcerated by the church fathers who had
built this academy to keep the seminarians away from
temptation many secretly desired things began to
seduce me stamms line the bible speaks for god
and the churches speak for the bible was suddenly
bursting with music a prelude an aria a fugue how
do the churches speak and for whom just now
heavens surveillance was on my side prodding me to
explore religious beliefs through as many avenues as
possible even though it might eventually mean
leaving the ministry as the thought of the violin as
a career was inevitably leaving me even now
THINW
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REFERENCE
BIBLE
my bible within reach on the old pine desk was in
itself beyond intellectual probing as far as its hidden
power was concerned open me at random pagan
like it was saying slip your fingers into my pages
and god will point out a message
title ppppaaaagsbrsee of th second ilsassues of the first edition of the nnoeww testament
of the king jjaumnaeess bible on the title page Is the same date as the first
printing in the library of the PRS
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I1 will come away
my thoughts went even further there was a remem-bered
text in the gospel of john which I1 had often
wondered about in terms of protestant exclusiveness
a rreeddlleetttteerreedd text that said other sheep have I1
which are not of this fold them also must I1 bring
they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold
and one shepherd
I1 found myself saying were you
savedr
an annotation in the commedia volume provided an
answer it stated that the talented virgil was of such
a soul that he was christian by nature one who
but for the accident of having been born too soon
would readily have accepted christ
but dante had his own ssaayyssoo in the matter great
though virgil was and faultless though his guidance
had been when he led dante through inferno and
ppPuuurrrgggaaatittoiioon paradiso was closed to him why because
like stamm virgil the eternal poet laureate was a
pagan
I1 told myself the bible speaks for
god and the churches speak for the bible to whom
and in what manner is god speaking to the wwoorrllddvy
what a challenging topic for a dissertation if the
seminary fathers and the synod would agree and
if they didnt what an interesting adventure to under-take
on my own A journey into the religions of
mankind regardless of their faith or creed their
origins or their goals to learn how the natural and
the supernatural are conveyed to them not only to
the worshipers of THE WORD but by whatever other
means god may be speaking to the world at large
but the church fathers were not interested there
was no passage in the bible that said go ye there-fore
and familiarize yourself with what other faiths
believe the better to understand your own
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1I had put away such childish things but if this kind
of bible magic really worked I1 told myself my
fingers in this moment would surely lead to solo-mons
song and its text to remind me tthhaitt when
the winter is past and the rain is over and gone
and flowers appear on the earth when the time of
the singing birds is come and the voice of the turtle
is heard in the land
could this possibly mean that
we the protestants or we the catholics or we the
entire christian family are not the only parishioners
in the universal church of god
huu earlier today several of us sssoooppphhhommoorriicc brlpfll moric
seminarians had gotten together to
sbbffll discuss the concept of salvation and ffbittll now ilt relatedd to christian theology 3bik ow were ppe6o0pl6e saved who had
BB lived and died before the coming of
christ why had god waited so long with sending
him or had the ancients been foreordained for
heaven or hell according to his predestined wish or
will
it was a typical ppoossttcchhrriissttmmaass bull session following
which I1 prowled among the musty stacks in the
basement library where the pagan works were
packaged and the popish things were stored here
I1 was guided to dante and his Ccoommmmeeddiaa dusty
unused and unexplored here were references to
virgil his poet guide and here a footnote stating
that this roman genius publius vergilius maro
virgil was born seventy years before the christian
era and died twenty years before christ was born
I1 took the book with me to my cubicle for further
investigation
tell me virgil
and by reason of this he was left standing
in silent thought outside the heavenly gate because
that was how in dantes time the church spoke
for the bible
if indeed
nor
was it scriptural to contend that religions are
various dialects by which god speaks to his people
and by which they in turn respond to him
yet the change was not slow in coming as we shall
see when we continue our consideration of SPIRI-TUAL
understanding BY WAY OF THE
BIBLE AND I1 in our next OUTREACH issue
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A SPECIAL contribution TO OUR OPENING ISSUE ON THE BIBLE
FROM THE philosophical RESEARCH SOCIETY AND ITS
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR MANLY P HALL
the earliest book printedilfrom movable type in europe was the gutenberg bible it first appeared in 1455 but
work on it probably started in 1450 the original intent might have been to sell the volumes as if they were hand-written
manuscripts similar to those in the libraries of the nobility and the clergy A replica of the gutenberg
press was brought to chicago for the worlds fair in 1933 using the same techniques and copies of the original
type a number of sheets were struck off
the motive which impelled gutenberg to carry on his work in absolute secrecy has been the subject of consid-erable
speculation there is an old story that ecclesiastical authorities thought the devil was cooperating in the
enterprise it was obvious that actual manuscripts could not be produced with such speed and accuracy by any
normal means gutenbergs creditors moved in on him and took possession of the printing equipment he had
invented
by a stroke of good fortune I1 was able to acquire
an actual original leaf from the gutenberg bible to
attest to the excellence of craftsmanship in one
historical phase of the story of the BOOK the
text is from I1 maccabees i1o01l1i
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leaf from the psalter of 1456 by gutenberg from a
reproduction printed at the chicagos world fair
my sincere appreciation to manly A hhhuaallltafil my friend
through the years my thanks to the philosophical
research society and its staff for permitting lorena
to photograph some rare and precious bBiibblical
treasures
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