William Tyndale was an English biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known as a translator of most of the Bible into English, and was influenced by the works of prominent Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther.
16th century engraving of William Tyndale, from Theodore Beza's Icones
Portrait of William Tyndale (1836)
Cuthbert Tunstall (1474–1559), Bishop of Durham
The beginning of the Gospel of John, from Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament.
The Tyndale Bible (TYN) generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale into Early Modern English, made c. 1522–1535. Tyndale's biblical text is credited with being the first Anglophone Biblical translation to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate and Luther's German New Testament. Furthermore, it was the first English biblical translation that was mass-produced as a result of new advances in the art of printing.
The beginning of the Gospel of John from a copy of the 1526 edition of William Tyndale's New Testament at the British Library.
A Tyndale New Testament in the British Library, London.
Portrait of Thomas More by Hans Holbein in the Frick Collection
