Original Translation with Annotations on Johannes Oecolampadius's "Das Der Miszverstand D. Martin Luthers, Uff Die Ewigbstendige Wort, Das Ist Mein Leib, Nit Beston Mag" of 1527
Abstract
This is a working original translation of approximately eighty-five pages of
Oecolampadius's 147 page work on Christ's Eucharistic presence entitled Das del'
miszverstand D. Martin Luther uJJdie ewigbstendige Wort 'Das ist mein Leib, ' nit beston
mag of 1527. This work has never been translated into English before and presented
many challenges. The translation aims to communicate the salient argumentation of the
text and portray Oecolampadius's view accurately. This is accomplished through careful
excerpts that retain the structural and contextual integrity of the original work, while
omitting paragraphs and pages that were either additional explanation or redundant to the
argument. It has been a long process.
Due to the overshadowing of Oecolampadius's life by other prominent sixteenth
century reformers, a brief biographical sketch will be included. It will be important for
the overall work to show that Oecolampadius is someone worth studying and worth
translating. It will also highlight the oddity that someone as influential as he was has only
received cursory scholarly interest, resulting in only three partial English translations out
of his 190+ surviving works. There are six sections to introduce Oecolampadius, who he
was, why he was important, his context within the Reformation, and then a critical
introduction on the translation itself. The structure of the thesis is centered on the
translation itself. I have formatted the translation into parallel columns to aid the reader in
quickly moving back and forth from the German to English. Annotations will be rendered
as footnotes as necessary throughout the translation concluding with a discussion of
Oecolampadius' Eucharistic theology as represented in this work.
Description
Master of Divinity thesis
Keywords
Basel, Oecolampadius, Johannes, Translation, Master of Divinity (MDiv) Thesis