The Bible Translation That Rocked the World [Published in
Christianity Today Magazine, October 23, 1983. Reprinted in O
Arauto da Santidate, Vol XV – Numero 10, Outubro 1986; Pioneer
Christian Monthly Magazine, Vol XXXIX, October 1988; Literature
Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Gale Literary Criticism Series, Vol
9 (Gale Research Inc., 1989); Christian History Magazine, April
1993; and Notes on Translation (Wycliffe Bible Translators),
Summer 1993. Also recorded on cassette tape by the Christian
Education for the Blind, Inc.] * * * * * * * * Luther's Bible
introduced mass media, unified a nation, and set the standard
for future translations. By Henry Zecher Martin Luther was many
things: preacher, teacher, orator, translator, theologian,
composer, and family man. He came to symbolize everything the
Protestant Reformation stood for. But perhaps Luther's greatest
achievement was the German Bible. No other work has had as
strong an impact on a nation's development and heritage as has
this Book. In Luther's time, th