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...Eisenhower, among others, as Communist agents or dupes. "Good God," roared Kuchel while rushing to Ike's rescue, "should the American people and the American Government let that kind of spleen be poured upon one who has given his whole life to freedom?" Connecticut's burly Tom Dodd, a conservative Democrat and tough antiCommunist, joined in. Welch's judgments, said he, are "an affront to decency and intelligence...
...back of me hand to C. H. Dodd [who heads the group working on a new translation of the Bible]. The "archaic phrases" are one of the features that make the Bible the jewel that it is. If the "moderns" want seduction, incest, etc., it's all there for them, only in poetic form. What modern novel cuts a prostitute in twelve pieces, one to be sent to each tribe of Israel...
With these words, Britain's eminent theologian, Congregationalist Charles H. Dodd, 76, announced last week the secret project that he has been directing for the past 13 years-The New English Bible. Its New Testament will be published on March 14, jointly by the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, in a record (for Britain) first edition of half a million copies...
...committee was set up under the chairmanship of Theologian Dodd to direct the project. The committee recruited 30 Biblical scholars who were divided into three panels-one for the New Testament, one for the Old Testament (due in 1967) and one for the Apocrypha. The scholars were backed up by a six-man committee of "literary advisers," whose names are officially secret. Individual members of a panel submitted their sections to the panel as a whole, which often spent days wrangling over a single verse...
...Influence. Chairman Dodd urged his scholars to shun other modern Englishings of the Bible.* "They can't help being a bad influence," he said. "Either you're tempted, unconsciously, to copy the wording, or else in your efforts to avoid copying, you are hampered in your free choice of words...