This translation of the New Testament into English from its
original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back
into England. It therefore escaped the fate of Tyndale's previous
version, which had been seized and publicly burnt by the
authorities. The 1534 edition outraged the clerical establishment
by giving the laity access to the word of God, in print in English
for the first time. Tyndale, who was already in exile for political
reasons, was hunted down and subsequently burned at the stake for
blasphemy. For the next eighty years-the years of Shakespeare among
others-Tyndale's masterly translation formed the basis of all
English bibles. And when the authorized King James Bible was
published in 1611, many of its finest passages were taken
unchanged, though unacknowledged, from Tyndale's work. Although,
therefore, this astounding work of pioneering scholarship was the
basis of all subsequent English bibles until after the Second World
War, and though it was the version of the Bible used by some of our
greatest poets, it is today virtually unknown because of its
suppression for political reasons because of its difficult early
sixteenth-century spelling. Now for the first time this version is
published in modern spelling, as the modern book it once was, so
that this masterly work of English prose by one of the great
geniuses of the as is available to today's reader.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 1996 |
| First published: |
September 1996 |
| Translators: |
William Tyndale
|
| Editors: |
David Daniell
|
| Dimensions: |
203 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
466 |
| Edition: |
1st Paperback Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-06580-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-300-06580-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780300065800 |
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