Our crocodile series was disrupted by the work that went into creating the Folger’s new website, but we’re back in action this month with a perhaps appropriately timed mystery item:
what manner of thing is this?
It’s just a snippet of thing, but leave your comments below and come back for the discussion of its mystery tomorrow!
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It’s a misprint – it should be Jesus, not Judas, in that verse. Which makes this an excerpt from the so-called “Judas Bible” printed by Robert Barker. There are a few different dates on this Bible, aren’t there? HAMNET shows you have the 1610, but searching online I see 1608 and 1609 dates, too (and also see that there is a complicated publishing history with this, involving a Geneva imprint).
John Russell — April 1, 2015
This is John 6:67 with a typo – Judas instead of Jesus – which occurred in some versions of the Geneva translation of the Bible. This image probably comes from the Folger’s 1610 copy (http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=168818 ). It’s perhaps more unusual in that this copy has remained uncorrected.
As it happens, the Washington Post published an article online about this only a couple of months ago! http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/02/10/when-jesus-was-judas-and-other-pretty-stupendous-bible-typos/
Philip Allfrey — April 1, 2015
Both of you—commenting at the same time!—are correct. It’s the Folger’s copy of the 1610 Geneva bible showing the typo in John 6:67. And that Washington Post article is exactly what led me to this crocodile and the question of when mistakes get corrected. More on this soon!
Sarah Werner — April 1, 2015
And the crocodile is now revealed! http://collation.folger.edu/2015/04/keeping-your-jesus-and-judas-straight/
Sarah Werner — April 7, 2015