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Do you know who taught the eagles to find their
prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in
His Word. - William Tyndale
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Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word. - William Tyndale
William Tyndale (/ˈtɪndəl/;
sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall;
c. 1494 – c. 6 October
1536) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading
up to his execution. He is well known for his (incomplete) translation of the Bible into English.
Tyndale was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek
New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin
Luther. A number of partial translations had
been made from the seventh century onward, but the spread of Wycliffe's
Bible in the late 14th century led to the death penalty for anyone found in
unlicensed possession of Scripture in English, although translations were
available in all other major European languages.
Tyndale's translation was the first English
Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English translation to use Jehovah
("Iehouah") as God's name as preferred by English Protestant
Reformers, the first English translation to take advantage of the printing
press, and first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation. It was taken
to be a direct challenge to the hegemony of both the Catholic Church and the laws of England maintaining the church's position. In
1530, Tyndale also wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's
annulment of his own marriage on the grounds that it contravened
Scripture.
Reuchlin's
Hebrew grammar was published in 1506. Tyndale worked in an age in which Greek
was available to the European scholarly community for the first time in
centuries. Erasmus compiled and edited Greek Scriptures following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Constantinople's fall helped to fuel the Renaissance
and led to the dispersion of Greek-speaking intellectuals and texts into a
Europe which previously had no access to them.
A copy of Tyndale's The Obedience of a Christian Man
fell into the hands of Henry VIII, providing the king with the rationale to break the Church in England from the Catholic Church
in 1534. In 1535, Tyndale was arrested and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde
(Filford) outside Brussels for over a year. In 1536, he was convicted of heresy and
executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake. His
dying prayer was that the King of England's eyes would be opened; this seemed
to find its fulfillment just one year later with Henry's authorization of the Matthew
Bible, which was largely Tyndale's own work - missing sections supplemented
with translations by John Rogers and Miles
Coverdale. Following this came the Great
Bible and then the Bishop's Bible, authorized by the church of England.
Hence, the work of Tyndale continued to play a key role in spreading Reformation ideas across the
English-speaking world and, eventually, to the British
Empire.
In 1611, the 47 scholars who produced the King
James Bible drew significantly from Tyndale's work, the Matthew
Bible, as well as from translations that descended from his. One estimate
suggests that the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's and
the Old Testament 76%. His translation of the Bible was the first to be printed
in English and to be translated from the original languages to English; it
became a model for subsequent English translations. In 2002, Tyndale was placed
at number 26 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
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William Tyndale (/ˈtɪndəl/;
sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall;
c. 1494 – c. 6 October
1536) was an English scholar who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading
up to his execution. He is well known for his (incomplete) translation of the Bible into English.
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