Dr. John Chadwick was a classical scholar who served as an editor
on the Oxford Latin Dictionary and who is internationally renowned
for his contribution to the decipherment of the ancient Minoan
script, Linear B. He was also a fellow of the British Academy and
of Downing College, Cambridge. By the time of his retirement in
1984, he had become the fourth (and last) Perceval Maitland
Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge. With Michael Ventris he
published Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956) and "Evidence for
Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives" in The Journal of Hellenic
Studies (1956). He also wrote The Decipherment of Linear B (1958)
and The Mycenaean World (1976). For the Swedenborg Society he
translated six of Swedenborg’s works, including The True Christian
Religion and The Last Judgment.
Dr. Jonathan S. Rose is a prodigious translator of Swedenborg and
the series editor of the New Century edition of Swedenborg’s works.
Holder of a BA and a MDiv in religion and a MA and a PhD in Latin,
he has worked for years in the study of Neo-Latin and in
Swedenborgian research. For the Swedenborg Foundation he has
translated True Christianity and has published numerous books and
articles, including Swedenborg’s Garden of Theology (2010). He was
editor of and a contributor to Emanuel Swedenborg: Essays for the
New Century Edition on His Life, Work, and Impact (2004).
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