Holy Logistics: When Tolkien Translates Scripture - The Whole Church Podcast
They state that J.R.R. Tolkien translated the Book of Jonah for the 1966 Jerusalem Bible, though his Jonah text was not carried into the later New Jerusalem Bible. Joshua Noel and TJ Blackwell interview Nick Polk of Tolkien Pop about Tolkien’s work on that translation project. They outline how the Jerusalem Bible began as a French scholarly effort and how the New Jerusalem Bible later retranslated from Hebrew sources. Nick explains Tolkien’s background as a philologist and his work with Old English and the Oxford English Dictionary, and how that led to his being asked to translate. They also…
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