The Bible was translated from the original languages into English in 1611 by about 50 scholarly men; but it had first been translated into English 80 years before that by William Tyndale. The original languages were Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New testament
Wycliffe translated it into Latin, but Tyndale translated it into English.
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What other language was the bible originally written in Before being translated to english?
According to historical accounts, William Tyndale's final words were "Lord, open the King of England's eyes" just before he was executed for heresy in 1536. He is famous for his translation of the Bible into English and played a significant role in the Protestant Reformation.
William Tyndale translated the Bible into English in 1525.
The Bible was translated from the original languages into English in 1611 by about 50 scholarly men; but it had first been translated into English 80 years before that by William Tyndale. The original languages were Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New testament
Wycliffe translated it into Latin, but Tyndale translated it into English.
William Tyndale (1492-1536), English Bible translator and reformer, was born in Gloucestershire and descended from an ancient Northumbrian family. His brother, Edward Tyndale, inherited the lands of Lord Berkeley. William Tyndale himself never married before his untimely death at age 44. His niece, Margaret Tyndale, married Rowland Taylor, a well-known English Protestant martyr. For more, see David Daniell, William Tyndale: A biography, ch. 1.
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What other language was the bible originally written in Before being translated to english?
According to historical accounts, William Tyndale's final words were "Lord, open the King of England's eyes" just before he was executed for heresy in 1536. He is famous for his translation of the Bible into English and played a significant role in the Protestant Reformation.
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Machine language is what the computer hardware understands. Everything else has to be translated to machine language before it can be executed.
William Tyndale (c 1491 - 1536) made the first Protestant translation of the Bible into English. I believe that the Roman Catholic Church continued to insist that the Bible should only be read in Latin, so Tyndale's was probably the very first English translation. I do not know the exact year he completed his project. Tyndale's New Testament was fully printed in 1526, and the portions of the Old Testament were published in sections during his life but as a group in 1537, the year after his death. However, the Wycliffe translation first appeared in 1382, and there had been earlier partial translations into 7th century Old English before this.
The first Bible written in English coincided with the printing press and the period of Reformation. Before that time it was forbidden to write in any other language besides Latin from the original Hebrew and Greek. The Latin translation occured in the 4th century A.D. By St. Jerome. This was known as the vulgate. This denial brought on the Protestant Reformation. John Wycliffe (1324-1384 AD) translated the first Bible into English under special permission but this Bible was mostly forbidden to be read Martin Luther translated the Bible into the German language in 1522. The first translation of the Bible into English from the original languages, Hebrew and Greek, and the first which was printed was that of William Tyndale in 1523. Tyndale's English translation of the Bible was pioneer vision plus an independent effort. Much of his translation is used in the King James Version of 1611, The best known and the best selling Bible of all times.
By the "oldest Bible," if it is meant of English translation, it is not owned by any government. First editions of Tyndale Bible of 1537 are privately owned. William Tyndale was the first to translate the Bible into English directly from the original language sources in Greek and Hebrew. He had actually circulated the English New Testament in 1525. Thomas Matthew, completed the Old Testament, one year after Tyndale was martyred in 1536 for supposed heresy. Thus the edition of the complete Bible is called the Matthew-Tyndale Bible. While the first complete English translation was produced in1382 by the influence of John Wycliff, it was before the printing press, and translated from the Latin Vulgate translation, not the original languages. In 1535, Myles Coverdale, Tyndale's friend, produced a translation of Bible into English, utilizing German, and Latin sources, not copies of the original manuscripts. If someone is trying to tell you that "the government" has taken scriptures out of the Bible, regard anything that person tells you with a healthy amount of skepticism. Various governments throughout history have made efforts at censorship, but Christianity survived despite considerable persecution by the Romans in the first couple of centuries AD, and it's always possible to go back to the earliest sources, so any removal of scripture would have to have taken place before those were written.