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Traces the life of William Tyndale, the first person to translate the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew and discusses the social, literary, religious, and intellectual implications of his work.
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It is full time that a new life of Tyndale were written. Demaus laid a good and true foundation sixty-six years ago, but much knowledge has been gained since then, and lurks in state papers and learned magazines. Even in the case of records that have long been known, a closer study of the text reveals many fresh facts, and sweeps away certain hoary fables that have gathered about the memory of the Reformer. - Preface.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. TYNDALE AT MARBURG; PUBLISHES "THE WICKED MAMMON," AND "THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN." A.D. 1528. SOME fifty miles north of Frankfort, in the beautiful valley of the Lahn, that tributary which pours its waters into Father Rhine opposite Coblentz, the picturesque city of Marburg fringes the foot of an eminence whose summit is crowned by a venerable castle, the residence in Tyndale's time of the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. Philip the Magnanimous, the Land...
Moynahan delves into the life of 16th-century scholar William Tyndale, whose attempt to translate the Bible into English incurred the wrath of Sir Thomas More, who proclaimed Tyndale's act heresy, punishable by death. In this lucid biography, Moynahan reveals the English Bible as a labor of love, for which a man in an age more spiritual than our own willingly gave his life.