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Before his execution, Tyndale had translated the New Testament, the Pentateuch, and the historical books of the Old Testament. [1] Of the Old Testament books, the Pentateuch, Book of Jonah, and a revised version of the Book of Genesis were published during Tyndale's lifetime.
Oct 31, 2021 · In 1611, 86 years after Tyndale’s partial New Testament was smuggled into England, a new English Bible appeared, a Bible that would so win the hearts of English-speaking Christians that, for three centuries, you could almost call it the English Bible.
Oct 6, 2024 · The 1526 first edition of William Tyndale's New Testament included a front panel, a table of contents called 'Bokes Conteyned in the newe Testament', the New Testament, and at the end were notes 'To the Reder', followed by Errata.
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Tyndale used Erasmus' 1522 edition of the Greek New Testament, Erasmus' Latin New Testament, Luther's German Bible, as well as the Latin Vulgate. His source of the Hebrew Old Testament may have been the Complutensian Polyglot.
Oct 6, 2021 · The English reformer, William Tyndale (1494–1536), was the first person to translate the New Testament directly from Greek to English. Tyndale was a priest and distinguished Oxford scholar who strongly believed that everyone should be able to read the Bible.
Oct 2, 2024 · His New Testament translation was completed in July 1525 and printed at Cologne. Again under pressure, this time from the city authorities, Tyndale fled to Worms, where two more editions were published in 1525. The first copies were smuggled into England in 1526, where they were at once proscribed.
In the 1520s, just as Reformation teachings from Europe were beginning to influence English clerics – particularly in Cambridge – William Tyndale produced the first printed editions of the New Testament and Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament).
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