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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 Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet in Sheffield, England, is a museum of a scythe-making works that was in operation from the end of the 18th century until the 1930s. [11] This was part of the former scythe-making district of north Derbyshire, which extended into Eckington. [12] Other English scythe-making districts include that around ...
Originally pairing them together as "The Psyche Zenobia" and "The Scythe of Time", Poe first published these pieces in the American Museum based in Baltimore, Maryland in November 1838. [4] The stories were retitled when they were republished in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.
The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and the King James Version by 51 years. [1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare , [ 2 ] Oliver Cromwell , John Knox , John Donne and others.
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).
The Bible is the world's most published book, with estimated total sales of over five billion copies. [181] As such, the Bible has had a profound influence, especially in the Western world , [ 182 ] [ 183 ] where the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed in Europe using movable type . [ 184 ]
The Winchester Bible is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript produced in Winchester between 1150 and 1175. With folios measuring 583 x 396 mm., it is the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible. [1] The Bible belongs to a group of large-sized Bibles that were made for religious houses all over England and the continent during the 12th ...
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...