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William Tyndale: A Biography
David Daniell
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Overview
This major biography traces the dramatic life of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew, and discusses the profound religious, literary, intellectual, and social implications of his immense achievement. Tyndale's masterful translation, which gave the laity access to God, formed the basis of all English bibles, including the "King James Bible," and made significant and lasting contributions to the English language.Synopsis
This major biography traces the dramatic life of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew, and discusses the profound religious, literary, intellectual, and social implications of his immense achievement. Tyndale's masterful translation, which gave the laity access to God, formed the basis of all English bibles, including the "King James Bible," and made significant and lasting contributions to the English language.
Fredrica Harris Thompsett
A long-awaited masterpiece.
Editorials
J. Enoch Powell
A massive contribution to the history of the Reformation in England.Donald Dean Smeeton
Stunning both in presentation and content. . . . Daniell carves away the popular myths and reveals an individual of heroic proportions.Fredrica Harris Thompsett
A long-awaited masterpiece.Library Journal
This biography of the first translator to render the Hebrew and Greek biblical texts directly into English is twice timely: the last definitive biography is over 50 years old, and 1994 is the quincentenary of Tyndale's birth (as far as that date can be established). Daniell (English, Univ. of London), the editor of Tyndale's Old and New Testaments, is well suited to his present task. This work is simultaneously an intellectual biography and a history of Tyndale's life and times. Daniell effectively sets the historical stage, anticipating the Church of Rome's hostility to Tyndale's efforts, and also clearly prepares the reader for Tyndale's translation decisions. A special strength of this study is the revelation that Tyndale's childhood in Gloucestershire, as much as his Oxford education, prepared him for the task of translation and, by extension, of uniting the disparate dialects of 16th-century England. In addition, Daniell prudently refuses easy speculation where previous biographers have succumbed. Thoroughly researched by one who knows Tyndale the person as well as Tyndale the translator, this book supersedes previous biographies and is stongly recommended for biography and religion collections.-W. Alan Froggatt, Bridgewater, Conn.J. Enoch Powell
A massive contribution to the history of the Reformation in England.—Times Higher Education Supplement
Donald Dean Smeeton
Stunning both in presentation and content. . . . Daniell carves away the popular myths and reveals an individual of heroic proportions.—Sixteenth Century Journal
Fredrica Harris Thompsett
A long-awaited masterpiece.—Journal of Religion
Book Details
Published
February 1, 2001
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pages
440
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780300068801