# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1202
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Report of the General Literature Board
(Memorial 702)

Bible Commentary — Jeremiah by Dr. Theo Laetsch
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T mes, This volume r epr esents years of Luther study and resear ch

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Hig clientele, and also outside the bounds of the Missouri
Bd It has already gone through several editions. The Bible
Bnentary — Jeremiah by Dr. Laetsch was the first volume of
srojected Lutheran Commentary to be placed on the market.
a scholarly work and merits a wide circulation. .
Ms word needs to be added regarding the Lutheran Com-
Stary. The production of this Commentary is a monumental
aking. Nine years have elapsed since Synod placed this
ect on the Board’s agenda. The first volume has now appeared.
this it can be deduced that it will require many years to
lete the Commentary. The slow progress does not stem from
of scholarship to produce a work of this kind, but from the
ability of authors to whom assignments have been made to find
e for concentrated effort on their tasks.
“In addition to the foregoing works, on the docket already at
last convention, we present a list of other volumes that have

en published:

Luther Discovers the Gospel by Dr. Uuras Saarnivaara
From Luther to Kierkegaard by Dr. J. J. Pelikan

Zion on the Mississippi by Dr. W. O. Forster

The Great Quest by Dr. Ad, Haentzschel

Explanation of the Book of Revelation by Dr. C. H. Little

Mercies Manifold by Dr. J. W. Behnken
Beside Still Waters by Dr. W. G. Polack
The Ten Commandments Will Not Budge by Rev. B. A. Maurer

Happiness Can Be Yours by Wm. A. Kramer
The Secret of Beautiful Living by Rev. Oswald Riess
. All these volumes reflect high scholarship and deep devotion
: ‘to the truth as it is in Christ Jesus.
Two major items, in the making for some time, will come off
* the presses in the foreseeable future. Under the general editorship
of Dr. E. L. Lueker of Concordia, Mo., the Concordia Cyclopedia,
henceforth to be known as the Lutheran Cyclopedia, has been re-
vised and enlarged. A new work on comparative religion, titled
American Churches, by Dr. F. Mayer, is in the final phase of
preparation for the press.

A new translation of the Book of Concord is being prepared
by Doctors F, E. Mayer and J. J. Pelikan of Concordia Semin:
and T. G. Tappert of the United Lutheran Church.

The report of the Board to the previous convention referred
to a new translation of the New Testament by a member of our
clergy, the Rev. Wm. F. Beck. To sound out the sentiment. of our
professors, pastors, and teachers, a copy of the translation of the
Epistle to the Galatians was mailed to them with the request for
their reaction. Some 300 replies were received. After carefully
weighing all the issues involved the Board resolved to request