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TLHP 40 Luther’s New Testament Translation: Details Less Often Told with Nathaniel Biebert

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In this episode, we welcome back Rev. Nathaniel Biebert to continue his mini-series on lesser-known details of 500th anniversaries of the Reformation.

Here, we focus on the 500th anniversary of the "September Testament."  In this case,  almost any detail will be a “detail less often  told.” Most Lutherans familiar with Luther’s life are aware that he translated the New  Testament into German at the Wartburg in less than eleven weeks, that it was published later that year, that he famously included the word alone in his translation of Romans  3:28, and that his translation (not just of the Testament, but eventually of the Bible as a  whole) helped to standardize the German language and to unify German-speaking peoples.

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    • Benjamin Phelps is a 2014 graduate from Martin Luther College with a Bachelor of Arts with a German emphasis. From there went on to graduate from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 2018.  Ben has been a regular writer and presenter on various Lutheran history topics.  His 2018 thesis on Wyneken won the John Harrison Ness award and the Abdel Ross Wentz prize. He is also the recipient of several awards from the Concordia Historical Institute.
      Ben is currently a doctoral student in historical theology through Concordia Seminary's reduced residency program in St. Louis.

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