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 translated much of the Bible into En
16th-century engraving of Tyndale
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 King James Bible, widely known by the nickname King James Version and the Authorized Version, is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England and Church of
William Tyndale
…the Great Bible and the Bishops' Bible, authorized by the Church of England. In 1611, after seven years of work, the 47 scholars who produced the King James Version of the Bible drew extensively from Tyndale's original work and other translations that descended from his. Estimates of suggests that the New Testament…
The title page to the 1611 first edition of the authorised version of the Bible by Cornelis Boel shows the Apostles Peter and Paul seated centrally above the central text, which is flanked by Moses and Aaron. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the traditionally attributed authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. The rest of the Apostles (with Judas facing away) stand around Peter and Paul. At the very top is the
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612)
William Tyndale translated the New Testament into English in 1525.
God’s name JEHOVAH in Psalms 83:18