Tyndale Bible

Tyndale Bible
Tyndale Bible
	The beginning of the Gospel of John from a copy of the 1526 edition of William Tyndale's New Testament at the British Library.
Abbreviation	TYN
NT published	1526
Translation type	Formal equivalence
Revision	1534, 1535
	Genesis 1:1–3 1 In the begynnynge God created heaven and erth. 2 The erth was voyde and emptie ad darcknesse was vpon the depe and the spirite of god moved vpon the water 3 Than God sayd: let there be lyghte and there was lyghte. John 3:16 For God so loveth the worlde yt he hath geven his only sonne that none that beleve in him shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe.

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 Hebrew and Greek texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate and Luther's German New Testament. Furthermore, it was the first English biblical translation that was mass-produced as a result of new advances in the art of printing.

The term "Tyndale's Bible" is not strictly correct, because Tyndale never published a complete English language Bible; instead, a completely translated Bible was completed by Myles Coverdale, who supplemented Tyndale's translations with his own to produce the first complete printed Bible in English in 1535. Before his execution, Tyndale had translated the New Testament, the Pentateuch, and the historical books of the Old Testament.^[3] Of the Old Testament books, the Pentateuch, Book of Jonah, and a revised version of the Book of Genesis were published during Tyndale's lifetime. His other Old Testament works were first used in the creation of the Matthew Bible and also greatly influenced subsequent English translations of the Bible.^[4]

^ Daniell, David (1 September 2003). The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. Yale University Press. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-0-300-09930-0. This handsome small volume of 1534, well printed by de Keyser, is the English New Testament as it went forward into other sixteenth-century versions ... A revised version of this New Testament, with minor changes, was made by Tyndale in 1535; it is known as the 'GH' edition.
^ Kenyon, Frederic G. (7 February 2023). "Tyndale's Version". Bible Research. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023. Several editions were issued in 1536, but Tyndale was not then in a position to supervise them [due to his arrest].
^ Kenyon 1936, pp. 47–49.
^ Partridge 1973, pp. 38–39, 52.

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[1] Daniell, David (1 September 2003). The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. Yale University Press. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-0-300-09930-0. This handsome small volume of 1534, well printed by de Keyser, is the English New Testament as it went forward into other sixteenth-century versions ... A revised version of this New Testament, with minor changes, was made by Tyndale in 1535; it is known as the 'GH' edition.

[2] Kenyon, Frederic G. (7 February 2023). "Tyndale's Version". Bible Research. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023. Several editions were issued in 1536, but Tyndale was not then in a position to supervise them [due to his arrest].

[FOOTNOTEKenyon193647–49-4] Kenyon 1936, pp. 47–49.

[FOOTNOTEPartridge197338–39,_52-5] Partridge 1973, pp. 38–39, 52.

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