Why was William Tyndale put to death?
Why was William Tyndale put to death?
A discussion of Bible translations and of William Tyndale, who was executed for heresy after translating the New Testament into English.
Who was the first person to translate the Bible into English?
William Tyndale
William Tyndale (1494?-1536), who first translated the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew text, is one such forgotten pioneer.
What did William Tyndale believe in?
Born in 1494 into a wealthy West Country wool family, educated at Oxford, and possibly Cambridge, from an early age Tyndale dedicated his life to providing the English with a Bible in their own tongue, a radical idea in a Catholic country where an educated priesthood enjoyed an effective monopoly on access to the Latin …
Why was William Tyndale important?
The Tyndale New Testament was not only the first biblical work in English translated from the original languages but the first of its kind produced by the printing press. His New Testament was mass produced and smuggled into England where, at one point, over 16,000 copies were in circulation.
Who tried to destroy the Bible?
In A.D. 301-304, the Roman Emperor Diocletian burned thousands of copies of the Bible, commanded that all Bibles be destroyed and decreed that any home with a Bible in it should be burned.
Why was the Bible not allowed to be translated to English?
All over the Christian world, church services were conducted in Latin. It was illegal to translate the Bible into local languages. John Wycliffe was an Oxford professor who believed that the teachings of the Bible were more important than the earthly clergy and the Pope.
Who was executed for translating the Bible?
Tyndale
Henry VIII decided that Tyndale had violated canon law: Latin alone was the accepted tongue for scripture in translation. While Tyndale was perfecting his knowledge of Hebrew to bequeath us the Old Testament (the Tanakh) he was captured by Henry’s troops. Tyndale was then strangled and burned at the stake.