The Tyndale Bible generally refers to the body of biblical translations by the English Biblical scholar and linguist William Tyndale, made in c. 1522–1535. Tyndale's biblical text is credited with bei
The first page of the Gospel of John from Tyndale's 1526 New Testament (British Library)
The portrait of William Tyndale, engraved by Frans van Bleyswyck (Rijksmuseum)
A Tyndale New Testament in the British Library, London.
Portrait of Thomas More by Hans Holbein in the Frick Collection
The Geneva Bible, sometimes known by the sobriquet Breeches Bible, is an early modern English Protestant Bible translation. It is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible int
Tyndale Bible
…in the 1940s noted that Tyndale's translation, including the 1537 Matthew Bible, inspired the translations that followed: The Great Bible of 1539; the Geneva Bible of 1560; the Bishops' Bible of 1568; the Douay-Rheims Bible of 1582–1609; and the King James Version of 1611, of which the RSV translators noted: "It…
Geneva Bible 1560 edition
Franklin's first design for the Great Seal of America, inspired by the frontispiece of the Geneva Bible
Geneva Bible title page 1589
Title page of a New Testament from the Geneva Bible, dated 1599 but probably printed circa 1616–1625