Tinsdale

[fabtec]

did tinsdale transpose the bible to english? was he from wensleydale w. Yorks

[bernardo]

William Tyndale did. I think he was from Bristol.

[Maud]

The father of the English Bible is William Tyndale. Tyndale wanted to provide man with a translation into English from the original Hebrew and Greek, not the Latin, which was itself, a translation. Tyndale was imprisoned in 1534, and in 1536 he was strangled and burned at the stake. Tyndale's efforts were not in vain, though. His New Testament was completed in 1525, and in 1535, Miles Coverdale, a scholar and friend of Tyndale, published his translation, partly based on Tyndale's work.William Tyndale was born about 1495 at Slymbridge near the Welsh border. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1521. Finding that King Henry VIII was firmly against any English version of the Scriptures, he fled to Germany in exile, poverty, persecution, and constant danger. He completed his translation of the New Testament in 1525, and it was printed at Worms and smuggled into England. Of 18,000 copies, only two survive. In 1534, he produced a revised version, and began work on the Old Testament. In the next two years he completed and published the Pentateuch and Jonah, and translated the books from Joshua through Second Chronicles, but then he was captured (betrayed by one he had befriended), tried for heresy and dealt with as I have stated. In 1537 the "Matthew Bible" (essentially the Tyndale-Coverdale Bible under another man's name to spare the government embarrassment) was published in England with Royal Permission. Six copies were set up for public reading in Old St. Paul's Church, and throughout the daylight hours the church was crowded with those who had come to hear it. One man would stand at the lectern and read until his voice gave out, and then he would stand down and another would take his place. All English translations of the Bible from that time to the present are based on the "Matthew Bible".