Protestant Reformation Studies

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Equivalence or power? / Richard Duerden -- Bible translations of George Joye / Orlaith O'Sullivan -- William Tyndale, the English Bible, and the English language / David Daniell -- John Knox's Bible / David Wright -- Vulgate as Reformation Bible: the sonnet sequence of Anne Lock / Susan M. Felch -- 1535 Coverdale Bible and its Antwerp origins / Guido Latré -- Martin Luther and Paul's Epistle to the Romans / William S. Campbell -- Without great effort, and with pleasure: sixteenth-century Genevan Bibles and reading practices / Francis Higman -- Law and the gospel': the evolution of an evangelical pictorial theme in the Bibles of the Reformation / Andrew Pettegree -- Politics and polemics in English and German Bible illustrations / Tatiana C. String -- Revelation and early English colonial ventures / Andrew Hadfield -- Imagining translation committees at work: the King James and revised versions / David Norton.

While Tyndale's importance in the history of biblical translation is well understood, his theology has been much less studied. Ralph Werrell has become the leading authority on his theology, and in The Blood of Christ in the Theology of William Tyndale, he explores the background to and influences on one of Tyndale's central theories. Werrell shows that Tyndale's ideas were developed independently, based on a wide range of earlier theology, and - in particular - from Wycliffite thought. He explains the way in which Old Testament sacrifice featured in Tyndale's thought, explaining his many references to the Epistle to the Hebrews, linking as it does Christ's sacrificial blood with the sacrifices of the Old Testament. Tyndale believed that man died spiritually through Adam's disobedience, and that it was brought back to life by Christ's blood. In this volume, Werrell brings out the differences between the covenant theology of Tyndale and both Luther's theology of the cross and Calvin's forensic justification, showing clearly the originality of Tyndale's beliefs.

The English Bible---the mot familiar book in our language---is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt. William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed as a saint and a man for all seasons, considered it his divine duty to pursue Tyndale. He did so with an obsessive ferocity that, in all probability, led to Tyndale's capture and death. The words that Tyndale wrote during his desperate exile have a beauty and familiarity that still resonate across the English-speaking world: "Death, where is thy sting?...eat, drink, and be merry...our Father which art in heaven." His New Testament, which he translated, edited, financed, printed, and smuggled into England in 1526, passed with few changes into subsequent versions of the Bible. So did those books of the Old Testament that he lived to finish. Brian Moynahan's lucid and meticulously researched biography illuminates Tyndale's life, from his childhood in England, to his death outside Brussels. It chronicles the birth pangs of the Reformation, the wrath of Henry VIII, the sympathy of Anne Boleyn, and the consuming malice of Thomas More. Above all, it reveals the English Bible as a labor of love, for which a man in an age more spiritual than our own willingly gave his life.

Traces the work of Tyndale and his successors, examining the translators' manuscript work and the KJB's textual and printing history.

By situating it in its historical and theological context, Translating Resurrection presents an original look at the fascinating but little-known debate between William Tyndale and George Joye about their beliefs concerning post-mortem existence at the beginning of the English Reformation.

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William Tyndale (1494-1536) was the first person to translate the Bible into English from its original Greek and Hebrew and the first to print the Bible in English, which he did in exile. Giving the laity access to the word of God outraged the clerical establishment in England: he was condemned, hunted, and eventually murdered. However, his masterly translation formed the basis of all English Bibles including the King James Bible, many of whose finest passages were taken unchanged, though unacknowledged, from Tyndale's work.

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William Tyndale; Contents; Preface; Chronology; THE HISTORY; Innocence and genius; A prophet without honour; The New Testament of 1526; Text and terror; Enemy of the State; The agony of exile; The New Testament of 1534; Betrayal and execution; The legacy; The Bible of Shakespeare; A force for good; Postscript Genius discarded?; Further reading; Index.