It was printed in Europe in late 1535 and and shipped to England for distribution. The rest of the Old Testament was translated from German and Latin by Coverdale. It used Tyndale’s New Testament and all of the Old Testament portions that Tyndale had completed. The Coverdale Bible first appeared in England in 1536, shortly after Tyndale’s death. He also helped proofread the Tyndale manuscripts as they went to press in Antwerp before Tyndale’s arrest. He did this in 1528 and spent some time working with Tyndale in Hamburg. Like Tyndale, Coverdale was forced to flee England for the relative safety of certain cities on the European continent. And why? Because it is given by the inspiration of God.” He fell in love with the Bible and later wrote, “Wherever the Scripture is known it reformeth all things. After his death the translation of the Old Testament was finished by other men and the entire Tyndale Bible was published in several editions, primarily the Coverdale Bible, the Matthew’s Bible, the Bishops Bible, the Geneva Bible, the Great Bible, and the King James Bible of 1611.įollowing is a study of the major editions of the Tyndale Bible between the time of Tyndale and the King James Bible.Ĭambridge educated, Miles Coverdale (1488-1569) had been an Augustinian friar, but he was converted through reading the Scriptures and left the priesthood. He completed Genesis through 2 Chronicles, plus Jonah, which is 15 of the 39 books. William Tyndale was not able to complete the entire Old Testament before he was put to death by the Catholic Church in 1536.
The Wycliffe Bible of the 14th century was based on Latin and was distributed only in handwritten copies. It was the first English Bible that was translated from Greek and the first that was printed. T he Tyndale New Testament first appeared in 1525.
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