October 6 is the customary date on which the death of the Protestant martyr William Tyndale in Belgium in 1536 is commemorated, though the precise date of his death — which occurred sometime in early ...

One of the first Bibles printed in English has sold at auction for £37,500. The Tyndale Bible was the first to be translated directly from Hebrew and Greek by William Tyndale. The linguist, from ...

Their names are mostly lost to history now–Geoffrey King, Lancelot Andrewes, Miles Smith and dozens more–but the book that brought them all together, the King James Bible, remains “the greatest work ...

Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. David Daniell’s tome features five shelves crowded with leather-bound Bibles on the front cover and a woodcut of William Tyndale’s martyrdom on the back.

Sharp as debate over the TNIV may be, the version’s translators are getting off easy compared to John Wycliffe and William Tyndale. As publication of the Today’s New International Version of the Bible ...

The King James Bible was translated by a group of about 47 scholars, divided into six committees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Each committee was responsible for translating a specific ...

IN THE BEGINNING: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture. By Alister McGrath. Doubleday, $24.95. THE story of how the Bible, whose original languages ...