Tyndale conference Geneva 2001

BOOKS FOR BURNING?
VERNACULAR BIBLES IN THE 16th CENTURY
26-28 October 2001, Geneva, Switzerland

"The 1560 Geneva Bible: The Shocking Truth"
Professor David Daniell, Emeritus Professor of English, University of London, Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and St. Catherine's College, Oxford.

"The Progress of Vernacular Bibles from Tyndale and Luther to the Present Day. St John's Gospel as a Case Study in the Textual Tradition"

The Reverend Professor Carsten Thiede, Professor of New Testament Times and History with Papyrology and Archaeology, Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule, Basel, Switzerland

"The Printing of Bibles in 16th Century Antwerp"

Dr Guido Latré, Senior Lecturer, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

"The Discovery of Richard Hunne's Wycliffe Bible"
Dr. Steve Sohmer, Hon. Fleming Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford, and Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California (Los Angeles), USA

"Danish and Icelandic Folio Bibles from the 16th and 17th Centuries"
Paul Rosendahl, Director, Rosendahl Printing House, Denmark, and Peter Raes, retired Danish educator.


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Professor David Daniell
David Daniell is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of London, an Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford and St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He was for twenty-five years in charge of Shakespeare studies at all levels at University College, London. He is author of over seventy books and journal essays, mainly on Shakespeare and the English Bible. He has toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and made many broadcasts (radio and television) in Europe and America. He published the first full biography of William Tyndale for sixty years in 1994, from Yale University Press. His modern spelling editions of Tyndale's New and Old Testaments came also from Yale University Press in 1989 and 1992. He was curator of the British Library's Tyndale Let There Be Light Exhibition, seen in London, California, New York and in the Library of Congress by a total of a quarter of a million people. He is Chairman of the Tyndale Society, which has a worldwide membership. His edition of Tyndale's Obedience of a Christian Man has just been published by Penguin Classics. His Arden edition of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was published in 1998. He is now at work for Yale University Press on a new and very large book on the English Bible from earliest times until the present.

The Reverend Professor Carsten Peter Thiede
Carsten Peter Thiede is Professor of New Testament Times and History with Papyrology and Archaeology at STH Basel, Switzerland and also, as an ordained Anglican priest, an officiating chaplain to Her Majesty's Forces. Amongst the numerous posts he has held are research fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at Geneva University (1977-1982). In 1999 he was appointed European and German Director of the Summer University of the Ben Gurion University, Israel and in 2001 became co-director of the excavation at Motza-Colonia, Israel. His numerous academic publications on early Christianity and the New Testament include The Jesus Papyrus and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity. In April 2001 he acted as theological adviser for a BBC documentary entitled 'The Quest for the True Cross';.

Dr. Guido Latré
Guido Latré studied English and Dutch Literature and Linguistics at Leuven University, Belgium (PhD 1982). From 1983 to 2001, he taught English Literature at K.U. Leuven as a permanent staff member, and on a part-time basis at the French-speaking university of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and at PLNU in San Diego (USA). In 2001, he became a Senior Lecturer at Université Catholique de Louvain. His main focus for teaching and research is English Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From 1990-96, he was a member of the Board of Governors at Westminster College in Oxford. He is currently coordinating a large-scale project on early English Bibles printed in Antwerp, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Reformation.

Dr. Steve Sohmer
Steve Sohmer is an Oxford D.Phil. A Shakespearean and Fleming Fellow (Hon.) of Lincoln College, Oxford. His principal interest is the relationship between Shakespeare's texts and the calendar and liturgy. He is a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California (Los Angeles). His books include Shakespeare's Mystery Play and the Opening of the Globe Theater 1599 (Manchester UP 1999) and the forthcoming Luther's Lives (MUP 2001), for which he acted as general editor, and which provides the first English translation of Johannes Cochlaeus's 175,000-word vita of Martin Luther.

Paul Rosendahl
Paul Rosendahl, master printer, has been Director of the Rosendahl printing house for 34 years and is Director of the Rosendahl Bible Museum, founded in Esbjerg, Denmark by his grandfather Kristian Rosendahl, in 1902 and 1906 respectively. He is a member of the Danish Bibliophile Club.

Peter Raes
Peter Raes, M.A. (Oxon) Dip.Ed., is retired headmaster of his own private school in Copenhagen. He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Hertford College, Oxford.. He is also a Member of the Danish Bibliophile Club and author of two books on Danish and Icelandic Bibles.

PROGRAMME

The 2001 Geneva Tyndale Conference will take place the weekend of 26-28 October, 2001 at the Centre de Rencontres, 21 rue du Temple, Cartigny, Geneva. The programme has been designed to cater for the needs of those travelling a considerable distance for the weekend and those in Switzerland who would like to come for a one-day conference.

Friday October 26

• 15h30 (provisional). Optional Visit to the Library of the Reformation Institute, Geneva
• 18h00 (provisional). Registration. Welcome aperitif and opening remarks by Prof. David Daniell. Launch of CD 'A Tyndale Christmas'.


• Evening meal
• Video/slide show on the life of Tyndale

• 9h00 - 9h45. Registration

• Dr Guido Latré: 'The Printing of Bibles in 16th century Antwerp'
• Prof Carsten Thiede: 'The Progress of Vernacular Bibles from Tyndale and Luther to the present day'

• Dr Steve Sohmer: 'The Discovery of Richard Hunne's Wycliffe Bible'
• Paul Rosendahl and Peter Raes: 'Danish and Icelandic Folio Bibles from the 16th and 17th Centuries' - A Causerie.

• Prof David Daniell: 'The 1560 Geneva Bible - The Shocking Truth'
• Closing remarks

• 10h30. Prof. Carsten Thiede, guest preacher at Holy Trinity Church, Geneva
• 12h30. Lunch in Holy Trinity Church Hall

• 14h00. Reformation walk, with guide, around the Old Town of Geneva. The itinerary will include Calvin's Auditoire (now the home of Geneva's Church of Scotland community), Collège Calvin, the Cathedral, and the Reformation Wall.
• 16h30.Tea in Holy Trinity Church Hall