Tyndale Bible - Wikipedia
The Tyndale Bible (TYN) generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale into Early Modern English, made c. 1522–1535. Tyndale's biblical text is credited with being the first Anglophone Biblical translation to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate and Luther's ...
The First English Bible - BibleVersion.org
For the Bible collector, it provides an exact facsimile of the first complete Bible ever translated into the English language, one done nearly 70 years before the invention of printing and the Gutenberg Bible.
How We Got Our Bible: History of the English Bible
Aug 10, 2022 · English Bibles Before KJV. After the first English translation was approved, several immediately followed: The Coverdale Bible. In 1535, Miles Coverdale (Tyndale’s assistant) produced a complete Bible. This became the first complete Bible printed in English. That said, he didn’t translate directly from the original languages.
William Tyndale - World History Encyclopedia
Apr 2, 2022 · William Tyndale (l.c. 1494-1536) was a talented English linguist, scholar and priest who was the first to translate the Bible into English. Tyndale objected to the Catholic Church’s control of scripture in Latin and the prohibition against an English translation.
What Are the Earliest Versions and Translations of the Bible?
The earliest translation of the Hebrew Bible is the Old Greek (OG), the translation made in Alexandria, Egypt, for the use of the Greek-speaking Jewish community there. At first, just the Torah was translated, in the third century B.C.E.; the …
William Tyndale | Biography, Bible, Death, & Facts | Britannica
Nov 8, 2024 · William Tyndale, English biblical translator, humanist, and Protestant martyr. He believed that the Bible alone should determine the practices and doctrines of the church. He translated the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament into …
William Tyndale - Wikipedia
William Tyndale (/ ˈtɪndəl /; [1] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – October 1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution.
First English Bible - National Library of Scotland
The first complete Bible in English was published abroad, most likely in Antwerp, in 1535. Myles Coverdale (1488-1569), an Augustinian friar from Yorkshire educated at Cambridge, 'faithfully and truly translated [it] out of Douche [German] and Latin into English'. Working alone, Coverdale modified William Tyndale's New Testament.
Biblical translation | History, Challenges & Benefits | Britannica
The first complete English-language version of the Bible dates from 1382 and was credited to John Wycliffe and his followers. But it was the work of the scholar William Tyndale, who from 1525 to 1535 translated the New Testament and part of the Old Testament, that became the model for a series of subsequent English translations.
William Tyndale's 1525 Bible translation - Bible Manuscript Society
As a scholar and a linguist, it was natural for him to want to translate the Bible into English. But translating the Bible into English was still regarded as heresy, and the Bible in English was still a banned book. Tyndale told the Church leaders of the day about his desire to translate the Bible into English, and he was met with hostility ...