Selected Writings
$34.39
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
11 December 2003
Summary
William Tyndale (c.1494-1536) gave the English people their first printed New Testament which he translated from the orginal Greek, and half of the Old Testament, which he translated from the orginal Hebrew. His clear and memorable language spoke directly to the heart, and his impact has been felt on all subsequent translations. In the decade since the quincentenary of his birth (1994), popular and scholarly understanding of the importance of the life and writings of William Tyndale (c. 1494…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857546569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857546563 |
| Author: | William Tyndale, David Daniell |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fyfield Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 11 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 135mm x 9mm |
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About The Author
William Tyndale
WILLIAM TYNDALE was born in about 1494 near Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, and educated at Oxford.During the early 1520s he began his English translation of the New Testament, which he completed in Cologne and Worms in 1526.He followed this with a translation of the Old Testament, the first five books of which were printed in Antwerp in 1530.Among his other works were The Parable of the Wicked Mammon (1528), The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528), A Pathway to the Holy Scripture (1530), The Practice of Prelates (1531) and An Exposition upon the First Epistle of John (1531).In 1535 he was arrested, charged with heresey and condemned to death; he was executed on 6 October 1536. David John Daniell (17 February 1929 – 1 June 2016) was an English literary scholar and editor of specialist books, mainly about William Tyndale and his translations of the Bible. He was formerly Professor of English at University College London and has published a number of studies of the plays of Shakespeare.
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