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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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  4. Oct 6, 2024 · In 1534 William Tyndale produced his revised New Testament, which was an overhaul of his previous New Testament, complete with prologues. This New Testament was produced for both private reading and liturgical use.

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  5. Within four years of Tyndale's death, a sequence of four English translations of the Bible were published in England at the king's behest, revising Tyndale's versions of the New Testament and Pentateuch with various objectionable features removed: Miles Coverdale's, Thomas Matthew's, Richard Taverner's, and the Great Bible.

  6. Oct 6, 2021 · The English reformer, William Tyndale (14941536), 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.

  7. The New Testament, 1534. This edition of William Tyndale’s New Testament was originally produced for the Royal Society of Literature to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of Tyndale’s martyrdom.

  8. Apr 2, 2022 · William Tyndale (l. c. 1494-1536) was a scholar, linguist, priest, and Reformer who was the first to translate the New Testament and part of the Old Testament into English from the original languages.

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