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Myles Coverdale, first name also spelt Miles (1488 – 20 January 1569), was an English ecclesiastical reformer chiefly known as a Bible translator, preacher and, briefly, Bishop of Exeter (1551–1553). [2] . In 1535, Coverdale produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English. [3] .
Miles Coverdale was the bishop of Exeter, Eng., who translated (rather freely; he was inexpert in Latin and Greek) the first printed English Bible. Ordained a priest (1514) at Norwich, Coverdale became an Augustinian friar at Cambridge, where, influenced by his prior, Robert Barnes, he absorbed.
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So who was Myles Coverdale? How did he manage to complete the work that Tyndale had started? Let us provide the background necessary to understand this exciting story.
- Overview
- The Thomas Matthew version
- The Great Bible
- The Geneva Bible
- The Bishops’ Bible
- The Douai-Reims Bible
A change in atmosphere in England found expression in a translation that, for all its great significance, turned out to be a retrograde step in the manner of its execution, although it proved to be a vindication of Tyndale’s work. On October 4, 1535, the first complete English Bible, the work of Miles Coverdale, came off the press either in Zürich ...
In the same year that Coverdale’s authorized version appeared, another English Bible was issued under royal license and with the encouragement of ecclesiastical and political power. It appeared (in Antwerp?) under the name of Thomas Matthew, but it is certainly the work of John Rogers, a close friend of Tyndale. Although the version claimed to be “...
In an injunction of 1538, Henry VIII commanded the clergy to install in a convenient place in every parish church “one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English.” The order seems to refer to an anticipated revision of the Matthew Bible. The first edition was printed in Paris and appeared in London in April 1539 in 2,500 copies. The huge page size earned it the sobriquet “the Great Bible.” It was received with immediate and wholehearted enthusiasm.
The first printing was exhausted within a short while, and it went through six subsequent editions between 1540 and 1541. “Editions” is preferred to “impressions” here since the six successive issues were not identical.
The brief efflorescence of the Protestant movement during the short reign of Edward VI (1547–53) saw the reissue of the Scriptures but no fresh attempts at revision. The repressive rule of Edward’s successor, Mary, a Roman Catholic, put an end to the printing of Bibles in England for several years. Their public reading was proscribed and their presence in the churches discontinued.
The persecution of Protestants caused the focus of English biblical scholarship to be shifted abroad, where it flourished in greater freedom. A colony of Protestant exiles, led by Coverdale and John Knox (the Scottish reformer) and under the influence of John Calvin, published the New Testament in 1557.
The failure of the Great Bible to win popular acceptance against the obvious superiority of its Geneva rival, and the objectionable partisan flavour of the latter’s marginal annotations, made a new revision a necessity. By about 1563–64 Archbishop Matthew Parker of Canterbury had determined upon its execution, and the work was apportioned among many scholars, most of them bishops, from which the popular name was derived.
The Bishops’ Bible came off the press in 1568 as a handsome folio volume, the most impressive of all 16th-century English Bibles with respect to the quality of paper, typography, and illustrations. A portrait of the queen adorned the engraved title page, but it contained no dedication. For some reason, Queen Elizabeth never officially authorized the work, but sanction for its public use came from the Convocation (church synod or assembly) of 1571, and it thereby became in effect the second authorized version.
The Roman Catholics addressed themselves affirmatively to the same problem faced by the Anglican church: a Bible in the vernacular. The initiator of the first such attempt was Cardinal Allen of Reims, France, although the burden of the work fell to Gregory Martin, professor of Hebrew at Douai. The New Testament appeared in 1582, but the Old Testame...
Apr 22, 2022 · Main shows how little we know about the first 38 years of Coverdale’s life, and how his glad acceptance of the central ideas of the Protestant Reformation drove him from the Catholic church and into a life of exile, poverty, and frequent danger.
- Crawford Gribben
The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English translation of the Bible (not just the Old, or New Testament), and the first complete printed translation into English (cf. Wycliffe's Bible in manuscript).
May 23, 2018 · Coverdale, Miles (1488–1568). Augustinian friar turned secular priest, popular preacher, and early reformer, Coverdale spent most of the time between 1528 and 1548 in exile, producing the first complete translation of the Bible into English, whilst abroad, in 1535.
