Let's be honest, I haven't met him either.
I wrote about some of this last year on my personal blog-- ionasword.net (pun absolutely intended):
ionasword.net/2017/04/19/wat…
And I specialise in "early modern" bibles.
Making a bible translation was (and is) a hard task, with many different requirements to satisfy.
But to a large extent, Luther (and Erasmus) changed the game.
Europe's educated were Latin readers. Latin was the language of scholarship and of church services.
By 1522, Luther - who was leading a campaign to oust corruption - went a step further...
It divided the Western Church. Opponents continued to respect the authority of the Pope (and so remain in the Roman Catholic Church). Luther's supporters based their faith on the Bible.
But Reformation had much wider ramifications. Luther & co. didn't just change bibles.
The depth and variety of change provoked by Reformation is hard to imagine, but it helps to explain why I got up at 6am yesterday morning..
Because I direct the University's @500Reformations project, exploring some of the stories of change that take us from Luther's first protests in 1517 to the present day.
So some of what I'll be sharing this week will be that kind of 'talk about change'.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06…
--@RadioPegs welcomed me & Dr Sasha Garwood (@Skull_Beneath) live shortly after 7am (~00:09:00). Though you may be better catching the re-run at 01.37:00.