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William Tyndale: He Gave His Life to Give Us the Bible

"William Tyndale's Bible translations have been the best-kept secrets in English Bible history. Many people have never heard of Tyndale; very few have (knowingly) read him. Yet no other Englishman —not even Shakespeare—has reached so many." —David Daniell, leading Tyndale scholar

by John Ross Schroeder

In his autobiography, famed movie actor Charlton Heston (Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, El Cid) marveled that a committee could produce such a monumental classic as the King James Version of the English-language Bible of 1611.

But according to British author Brian Moynahan, William Tyndale's most recent biographer, "A complete analysis of the Authorised Version [KJV] ... was made in 1998. It shows that Tyndale's words account for 84 per cent of the New Testament, and 75 per cent of the Old Testament books that he translated" (William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life, 2003, p. 1).

Tyndale's contribution to the English Bible

David Daniell, the leading Tyndale scholar of our modern age, adds: "William Tyndale gave us our English Bible. The sages assembled by King James to prepare the Authorised Version of 1611, so often praised for unlikely corporate inspiration, took over Tyndale's work. Nine-tenths of the Authorised Version's New Testament is Tyndale's ..." (William Tyndale: A Biography, 1994, p. 1).

Well before any thorough, painstaking analytical comparative study had ever been done, the noted British Bible scholar F.F. Bruce commented on the work of the compilers of the King James Version. "All the existing English versions lay before the translators ... But the abiding influence of one man in particular may be traced throughout great portions of their work, and that man was William Tyndale" (The Books and the Parchments, 1984, p. 221).

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn53/williamtyndale.htm

Related Information on UCG Sites:

Sidebar: William Tyndale and the Apostle Paul
Sidebar: William Tyndale: Biographical Timeline
Sidebar: Tyndale as Translator
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