A Letter on Luther's Wartburg Bible
                  Alleged Luther Bible not the Reformer's Own
                            from Dr. Hans Rollmann
                               22 February 1997


 Bible from Luther's time after all not the reformer's own.

 The Bible from Luther's time, discovered two years ago in Stuttgart, did
 apparently not belong to the reformer after all. At the end of a three-day
 conference at the state library of Baden Wurttemberg, experts said today
 that the hand-written annotations in the Latin Bible are not from Martin
 Luther himself. The hand-writing exhibits merely a similarity,
 characteristic for its time, with that of Luther. The writer lived probably
 in Electoral Saxony and had access to unpublished Luther texts. The
 conjecture that Luther used the Bible while translating the New
 Testament at Wartburg castle is untenable.

 Hans Rollmann
 Department of Religous Studies
 Memorial University of Newfoundland

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