William Tyndale : A Biography / David Daniell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniell, David, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyndale, William, -1536.

Tyndale, William.

Reformation--England--Biography.

Reformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Tyndale (1494-1536) was the first person to translate the Bible into English from its original Greek and Hebrew and the first to print the Bible in English, which he did in exile. Giving the laity access to the word of God outraged the clerical establishment in England: he was condemned, hunted, and eventually murdered. However, his masterly translation formed the basis of all English bibles--including the "King James Bible," many of whose finest passages were taken unchanged, though unacknowledged, from Tyndale's work.This important book, published in the quincentenary year of his birth, is the first major biography of Tyndale in sixty years. It sets the story of his life in the intellectual and literary contexts of his immense achievement and explores his influence on the theology, literature, and humanism of Renaissance and Reformation Europe.David Daniell, editor of Tyndale's New Testament and Tyndale's Old Testament, eloquently describes the dramatic turns in Tyndale's life. Born in England and educated at Oxford, Tyndale was ordained as a priest. When he decided to translate the Bible into English, he realized that it was impossible to do that work in England and moved to Germany, living in exile there and in the Low Countries while he translated and printed first the New Testament and then half of the Old Testament. These were widely circulated-and denounced-in England. Yet Tyndale continued to write from abroad, publishing polemics in defense of the principles of the English reformation. He was seized in Antwerp, imprisoned in Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels, and burnt at the stake for heresy in 1536.Daniell discusses Tyndale's achievement as biblical translator and expositor, analyzes his writing, examines his stylistic influence on writers from Shakespeare to those of the twentieth century, and explores the reasons why he has not been more highly regarded. His book brings to life one of the great geniuses of the age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Chapter 2. TYNDALE'S OXFORD

Chapter 3. CAMBRIDGE, AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE AGAIN

Chapter 4. TO LONDON

Chapter 5. COLOGNE, 1525

Chapter 6. WORMS, 1526

Chapter 7. THE WICKED MAMMON

Chapter 8. TYNDALE AND ENGLISH POLITICS

Chapter 9. THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN

Chapter 10. SIR THOMAS MORE

Chapter 11. TYNDALE'S PENTATEUCH

Chapter 12. THE 1534 NEW TESTAMENT

Chapter 13. 'MATTHEW'S BIBLE'

Chapter 14. ENTER HENRY PHILLIPS

Chapter 15. TRIAL AND EXECUTION

Appendix A. THE SCHEME OF THE PARABLE OF THE WICKED MAMMON, 1528

Appendix B. THE STRUCTURE OF THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN

Appendix C. ONE SENTENCE FROM ISOCRATES' PANEGYRICA

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-280-57158-6

9786613601186

0-300-18388-7

OCLC:

953661061