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The film God's Outlaw: The Story of William Tyndale, was released in 1986. The 1998 film Stephen's Test of Faith includes a long scene with Tyndale, how he translated the Bible, and how he was put to death. [71] A cartoon film about his life, titled Torchlighters: The William Tyndale Story, was released ca. 2005. [72]
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 Greek and, for the Pentateuch, Hebrew texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate and German Bibles.
The first page of the Gospel of John, from William Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament. William Tyndale was a scholar who graduated at Oxford, was a student in Cambridge when Martin Luther posted his theses at Wittenberg and was troubled by the problems within the Church. In 1523, taking advantage of the recent invention of the ...
A French translation Tyndale Bible: Incomplete translation. Tyndale's other Old Testament work went into the Matthew's Bible (1537). Early Modern English 1526 (New Testament, revised 1534) 1530 (Pentateuch) Masoretic Text Erasmus' third NT edition (1522) Martin Luther's 1522 German Bible.
The next English Bible translation was that of William Tyndale, whose Tyndale Bible had to be printed from 1525 outside England in areas of Germany sympathetic to Protestantism. Tyndale himself was executed after refusing to recant his Lutheranism , and was not charged for infringing any law relating to vernacular translation.
In 1535, Coverdale produced the first printed translation of the full Bible into Early Modern English, completing the translations of William Tyndale. [ 3 ] His theological development is a paradigm of the progress of the English Reformation from 1530 to 1552.
Tyndale criticizes the church for allowing the English people to be ignorant of the Bible, and replacing the teaching of scripture with ceremonies or ritual superstition. "On the holy days which were ordained to preach God's word, set up long ceremonies, long matins, long masses and long evensongs, and all in Latin that they understand not, and ...
Humphrey Monmouth (died 23 November 1537) [1] was an English merchant in London who was an acquaintance of Bible translator William Tyndale. Monmouth was a wealthy member of the Drapers' Company and served as an alderman and sheriff of London from 1535 to 1536. [2] [3] Monmouth had Lollard connections [4] and was an early convert to Protestantism.