Tyndale Bible

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The Tyndale Bible is an early 16th-century English translation of the Bible by William Tyndale that laid the foundation for later English versions of Scripture.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bible translation
English Bible translation
aim to make Scripture available in vernacular English
associatedWithEvent English Reformation Parliament era
surface form: English Reformation
basedOn Textus Receptus
surface form: Erasmus’s Greek New Testament

Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece
surface form: Greek New Testament

Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible
centuryOfOrigin 16th century
completionStatus not a complete translation of the entire Bible
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of England
genre Bible
religious text
hasAuthor William Tyndale
hasPart Tyndale Bible self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tyndale New Testament

Tyndale Bible self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tyndale Pentateuch

Tyndale Bible self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tyndale translation of Jonah
includesBook Acts of the Apostles
Book of Jonah
Gospel of John
Gospel of Luke
Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Matthew
Pauline Epistles
Five Books of Moses
surface form: Pentateuch
incompleteWork true
influenced Bishops' Bible
surface form: Bishops’ Bible

English Bible tradition
Geneva Bible
Great Bible
King James Version
language Early Modern English
English
legalStatusAtPublication banned in England
notableFeature helped standardize biblical English phrasing
many phrases later adopted by the King James Version
one of the first printed English New Testaments
translated directly from Hebrew and Greek rather than Latin Vulgate
opposedBy English ecclesiastical authorities
Roman Catholic Church authorities in England
printingTechnology movable type printing
publicationPlace Cologne
Worms, Germany
surface form: Worms
religiousTradition Christianity
Protestantism
startTime 1520s
1525
theologicalOrientation Evangelical
Reformation
translator William Tyndale

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bishops' Bible basedOn Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: Tyndale's Bible
Tyndale Bible hasPart Tyndale Bible self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tyndale New Testament
Tyndale Bible hasPart Tyndale Bible self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tyndale Pentateuch
Tyndale Bible hasPart Tyndale Bible self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tyndale translation of Jonah
Thomas Matthew hasPartInWork Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: Tyndale’s New Testament translation
Thomas Matthew hasPartInWork Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: Tyndale’s Pentateuch translation
Textus Receptus influenced Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: Tyndale New Testament
Geneva Bible influencedBy Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: William Tyndale Bible
William Tyndale notableWork Tyndale Bible
King James Version predecessor Tyndale Bible
Matthew Bible textSourceNewTestament Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: William Tyndale’s New Testament translation
Matthew Bible textSourcePentateuch Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: William Tyndale’s Pentateuch translation
Myles Coverdale usedSources Tyndale Bible
this entity surface form: William Tyndale’s Pentateuch translation