Reformation Era Bible Translations
Bible translations from the 1500’s and early 1600’s, during the era of the Protestant Reformation.
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(1526) The Tyndale New Testament
In 1526, William Tyndale became the first person to translate the New Testament from the original Greek into English. Just a decade later, he was strangled and then burned at the stake on October 6, 1536. His crime? His belief that Scripture ought to be accessible to the common man. His dying words were, “Lord,…