Learning Activity 1.4

1. William Tyndale's Bible.
Name: Angela Aguiar Galvan.

2. WILLIAM TYNDALE (1494 – 1536) .
Protestant reformer and scholar
who was influenced by the
of Erasmus and Martin Luther.
Tyndale was an ordained priest,
took risks and lived as a
revolutionary.
In 1529 was condemned and
exiled.
In 1536 was found guilty of
heresy, the way they chose to
kill him was to strangle him.

3. WORKS.
Tyndale’s Bible was the first
English translation to come
directly from Hebrew and Greek
texts .
It was the first English biblical
translation that was mass-
produced in a printing.
In 1524 he met Erasmus and
Later Luther, the two key men
in the movement towards
what became Protestantism.
In 1526 was published the first
recorded complete edition of
his New Testament.

4. STRUGGLES.
The Church had
unique access to
God and so to
eternal life.
Henry VIII the king
promised the Pope
that he would burn
any “untrue
translations”.
Tyndale’s
translations were
condemned by
the Catholic Church
and the king of
England.

5. INFLUENCES.
He setted the path for a radical change in English language and in English society.
Wycliffe, Lutter and Tyndale wanted ordinary people to have direct access to God.
The Scripture should be available even to common people.
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They too believed in the virgin birth, in the divinity of Christ above all in the resurrection.

6. CONCLUSIONS.
• Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English one
to take advantage of the printing press, and first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation.
• Tyndale was not only bringing the word of God to the people, he was also, within that process, bringing in words
which described feelings, gave voice to evolution, expanded the way in which we could describe how we lived.
• Tyndale’s words and phrases influenced between sixty and eightY percent of the king James Bible of 1611 .

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
 Bragg, Melvin. (2003) The Adventure of English. The Biography of a Language.
New York. Arcade publishing.