This translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It therefore escaped the fate of Tyndale's previous version, which had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. The 1534 edition outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity access to the word of God, in print in English for the first time. Tyndale, who was already in exile for political reasons, was hunted down and subsequently burned at the stake for blasphemy. For the next eighty years--the years of Shakespeare among...
This translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It therefore...
The first in a series that brings together the independent works of William Tyndale. It provides the missing link between Sir Thomas More's Dialogue Concerning Heresies and Confutation of Tyndale and is suitable for those studying English language and literature, church history and theology.
The first in a series that brings together the independent works of William Tyndale. It provides the missing link between Sir Thomas More's Dialogue C...
Including Bible translations from the original Greek and Hebrew, this collection of William Tyndale's work presents the full text of the seminal "Pathway of Holy Scripture," and extracts from "The Obedience of a Christian Man," "The Parable of the Wicked Mammon," "The Practice of Prelates," and his powerfully political "An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue."
Including Bible translations from the original Greek and Hebrew, this collection of William Tyndale's work presents the full text of the seminal "Path...
Pastor John Rogers assembled in 1537 a volume that contained, for the first time as part of a complete Bible, all of William Tyndale's translation work, the 1534 New Testament, the Pentateuch, and the nine historical books, ending with 2 Chronicles. Where there were gaps in Tyndale's work, Rogers used that of Miles Coverdale (1535).
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer saw to it that the Matthew's Bible was shown to King Henry VIII, who then licensed the complete Bible in English. Thomas Cromwell, Henry's Viceregent for church affairs, subsequently en
Pastor John Rogers assembled in 1537 a volume that contained, for the first time as part of a complete Bible, all of William Tyndale's translation ...