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  COB-NET Historical Notes: William Tyndale
Tyndale's translation of the New Testament in 1526 was the first English Bible to appear from a printing press, and to be translated directly from Greek rather than Latin.
Tyndale was living in the free city of Antwerp, but the surrounding land was still under the control of Emperor Charles V, also nephew of Catherine whom Henry had recently divorced.
Tyndale was kidnapped, taken from Antwerp, and imprisoned in the fortress of Vilvorde.
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 William Tyndale
William Tyndale was born sometime in the early 1490s on the Welsh border into the home of a well-to-do farmer.
Their sophistries and hypocrisies were exposed by Tyndale's bold appeals to Scriptural teachings so that, along with his sermons, Tyndale's views aroused the hatred and fury of friars, abbots and prelates.
Tyndale was imprisoned in the castle of Vilvorde near Brussels.
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 William Tyndale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindale or Tindall) (circa 1494 - October 6, 1536) was a 16th century religious reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day.
William Tyndale was born around 1494, probably in North Nibley near Dursley, Gloucestershire.
The Tyndales were also known under the name "Hitchins" or "Hutchins", and it was under this name that he was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford (now part of Hertford College), where he was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1512 and Master of Arts in 1515.
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 William Tyndale
Tyndale was a true scholar and a genius, so fluent in eight languages that it was said one would think any one of them to be his native tongue.
Tyndale was descended from an ancient Northumbrian family, went to school at Oxford, and afterward to Magdalen Hall and Cambridge.
Tyndale's translation was banned by the authorities, and Tyndale himself was burned at the stake in 1536, at the instigation of agents of Henry VIII and the Anglican Church.
www.greatsite.com /timeline-english-bible-history/william-tyndale.html   (928 words)

  
 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF WILLIAM TYNDALE.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Of whom Tyndale himself, in his prologue before the first book of Moses, re-porteth that they affirmed his sayings were heresy; adding moreover unto his sayings, of their own heads, more than ever he spake, and so accused him secretly to the chancellor and other of the bishop’s officers.
Tyndale’s ‘Practice of ‘Prelates’ is a continued setting forth of reasons and motives which should induce princes to resume authority over ecclesiastics, and to humble the usurping hierarchy; and as Cromwell was now gaining influence with Henry VIII.
Tyndale also kept his labor in view; but his was the service of the King of kings, and his object was to deliver captives from their bondage.
www.godrules.net /library/tyndale/19tyndale2.htm   (6323 words)

  
 History of Our English Bible   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tyndale came to the opening and saw two officers ready to seize him, he hesitated and moved back, Phillips stood over him, pointing down with his finger as a sign that this was the man then pushed William Tyndale forward into the arms of his captors.
Tyndale knew his trial would be little more than a formality; but during that event he might have opportunity of speaking for his Savior, and thus he must prepare his defense well.
Tyndale asks for his needs, determines to go on with his study, longs only for the salvation of his captors, and is ready for whatever God’s sovereign purpose may be.
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 Showcases - Landmarks in Printing :: William Tyndale's New Testament
Tyndale later wrote that the Church authorities banned translation into the mother tongue “to keep the world still in darkness, to the intent they might sit in the consciences of the people, through vain superstition and false doctrine, to satisfy their filthy lusts, their proud ambition, and insatiable covetousness, and to exalt their own honour...
Tyndale fled with his assistant, William Roy, to Worms, where a pocket-sized edition was the first of two to be completed.
Tyndale was betrayed and imprisoned in Vilvoorde Castle, accused by Henry VIII of spreading sedition in England.
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 Tyndale, William - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
TYNDALE, WILLIAM [Tyndale, William], c.1494-1536, English biblical translator (see Bible) and Protestant martyr.
Occupied with revising his translations, Tyndale was seized (1535) in Antwerp and confined in Vilvoorde Castle, near Brussels.
Tyndale's New Testament visits America.(first English version of the New Testament, printed by William Tyndale ca.
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 Amazon.ca: William Tyndale : A Biography: Books: David Daniell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell (a University of London scholar and chairman of the William Tyndale Society) reveals all that is known of Tyndale's life, but its primary interest is in Tyndale's rhetorical style.
William Tyndale worked almost alone, unaided by his church, virtually exiled from his homeland, to translate the Bible from the original Greek (and later, Hebrew) into the English vernacular of the common working man, and at the risk and eventual cost of his life.
Tyndale bucked the incredible power of the 16th century church, burdened by its bias against a vernacular English translation, and showed outstanding scholarship in producing one the most remarkable Bible translations in the history of the English Bible.
www.amazon.ca /William-Tyndale-Biography-Daniell/dp/0300068808   (1249 words)

  
 Memoirs of William Tyndale
WILLIAM TYNDALE, the subject of the present memoir, was born on the border of Wales, some short time prior to 1500.
Tyndale, on account of his arguments, and had him accused of many heresies to the bishop's chancellor, before whom he was cited to appear; but nothing having been proved against him, after railing at him for some time, and abusing him, he was dismissed.
Tyndale, fired with zeal and indignation at the unclerical expression, replied, I defy the pope and all his laws; and if it please God to spare me a few years, I will cause a ploughboy to know more of the scriptures than the pope himself and the greater part of his agents.
www.apuritansmind.com /MemoirsReformers/MemoirsWilliamTyndale.htm   (3079 words)

  
 William Tyndale: He Gave His Life to Give Us the Bible > The Good News : July/August 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tyndale's version was the first rendering into English directly from Hebrew and Greek, the original biblical languages (along with a small portion in Aramaic).
William Tyndale reached the apex of his translating skills with the revised New Testament of 1534.
William Tyndale had moved back to what is now Belgium, where his life ended in painful martyrdom at Vilvorde, approximately six miles from Brussels—capital city of Belgium and in modern times the European Union's principal base of operations.
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 WILLIAM TYNDALE (1484-1536), born one hundred years after the death of Wycliffe, recognized Englandâs need for the ...
Tyndale and the man who was helping him at that time, William Roye, were able to get away with most of the completed sheets; and, being forced to flee, they escaped by boat up the Rhine river to the city of Worms, where the printing was completed.
Tyndale, apparently hearing of this, contacted Vaughan by a middle man and requested that Vaughan accompany this man to meet "a certain friend, unknown to the messenger, who is very desirous to speak with you." Vaughan inquired as to the mystery friend’s name, but he was told that the messenger did not have this information.
William Tyndale was betrayed to his enemies in May 1535, in Antwerp, by Henry [also called Harry] Phillips, a man pretending to be his friend, and by Gabriel Donne, a Catholic monk who was posing as Phillips’ servant.
www.wayoflife.org /articles/williamtyndale.htm   (11773 words)

  
 William Tyndale (c.1494 - 1536)
William Tyndale is believed to have been born near Dursley, Gloucestershire, UK in 1494.
The William Tyndale Quincentenary Trust was established in 1992 to prepare for the 500th anniversary of Tyndale's birth.
William Tindale, a biography: being a contribution to the early history of the English Bible.
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 William TYNDALE
But in London Tyndale was firmly rebuffed when he sought the support of Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, who was uneasy, like many highly placed churchmen, with the idea of the Bible in the vernacular.
Tyndale understood the commonly received doctrine - the popular theology - of his time to imply that men earn their salvation by good behavior and by penance.
Miles Coverdale continued Tyndale's work by translating those portions of the Bible (including the Apocrypha) which Tyndale had not lived to translate himself, and publishing the complete work.
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 William Tyndale
William Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire, on the English border of Wales, in 1492.
Tyndale was so well learned in God’s matters, that when anyone disagreed with his opinions, he simply showed them the Bible, plainly laid the obvious evidence before them, and confirmed his sayings.
William, betrayed by his “friend” Philips, was arrested and hauled off to prison for sixteen months; after which, he was condemned and executed as a heretic in 1536.
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 Hertford College web site - William Tyndale
Tyndale, with the help of Humphrey Monmouth, a merchant of means, left England under a false name and landed at Hamburg in 1524.
Tyndale went into hiding - in Hamburg, it is believed, for a time - and went on working.
Tyndale returned to Greek and Hebrew sources for his English Bible and his sharp, lucid English style set the character for every translation that followed.
www.hertford.ox.ac.uk /main/content/view/90/153   (885 words)

  
 The Life of William Tyndale
As this grew on, the priests of the country, clustering together, began to grudge and storm against Tyndale, railing against him in alehouses and other places, affirming that his sayings were heresy; and accused him secretly to the chancellor, and others of the bishop's officers.
At what time Tyndale had translated Deuteronomy, minding to print the same at Hamburg, he sailed thitherward; upon the coast of Holland he suffered shipwreck, by which he lost all his books, writings, and copies, his money and his time, and so was compelled to begin all again.
William Tyndale, being in the town of Antwerp, had been lodged about one whole year in the house of Thomas Pointz, an Englishman, who kept a house of English merchants.
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 William Tyndale - Today's Christian
Tyndale was immediately taken to the Castle of Vilvorde, the great state prison of the Low Countries, and accused of heresy.
Finally, in early August 1536, Tyndale was condemned as a heretic, degraded from the priesthood, and delivered to the secular authorities for punishment under the laws of the Inquisition.
On October 6, 1536, Tyndale was brought to the cross in the middle of the town square and given a chance to recant.
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 Britannia Biographies: William Tyndale
William was born in 1493 in the county of Gloucester.
In 1520 Tyndale accepted a post at Little Sodbury as tutor and chaplain in the household of Sir John Walsh.
With this determination Tyndale sought the permission and the encouragement of the Bishop of London for his endeavours.
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 William Tyndale
William Tyndale was born in Slymbridge in about 1496.
In 1524 Tyndale went to Hamburg where he met Martin Luther and the following year moved to Cologne where he managed to arrange for his translation of the Bible to be printed in English.
In 1535 William Tyndale was betrayed by Henry Phillips and arrested in Antwerp and imprisoned in a castle near Brussels.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDtyndale.htm   (437 words)

  
 William Tyndale - Heretical Blasphemer?
Master Tyndale happened to be in the company of a learned man, and in communing and disputing with him drove him to that issue, that the learned man said: 'We were better be without God's law than the Pope's.
Tyndale stood for the truth as taught by the scriptures, and he was determined to see to it that the Bible was distributed in the English language so that others might know that same truth by reading it for themselves.
Tyndale was in the process of translating the Old Testament when he was murdered.
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 William Tyndale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
So Tyndale was born into a country which, though the witnesses of the Truth were not altogether wanting, yet they were in distress and had suffered much for their faith and convictions.
Tyndale observed that he desired to own the Scriptures in order to burn it, but he continued: “You should be glad for two benefits with come out of the whole deal.
Tyndale was enduring exile for the sake of his convictions.
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 Biography: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and John Fisher
More and Tyndale exchanged several broadsides, and it can reasonably be maintained that the attacks on both sides were directed against positions that the other side did not really hold, that neither really understood completely the position that the other was defending.
What we miss in Tyndale is the many-sidedness, the elbow-room of More's mind; what we miss in More is the joyous, lyric quality of Tyndale.
Amid all More's jokes I feel a melancholy in the background; amid all Tyndale's severitites there is something like laughter, that laughter which he speaks of as coming "from the low bottom of the heart." But they should not be set up as rivals, their wars are over.
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 William Tyndale
William Tyndale was born about 1495 at Slymbridge near the Welsh border.
Tyndale understood the commonly received doctrine -- the popular theology -- of his time to imply that men earn their salvation by good behavior and by penance.
Since the above bio was written, a well-regarded biography of Tyndale has been written by David Daniell, who has also edited modern-language reprints of Tyndale's Bible, both New Testament and Old..
satucket.com /lectionary/William_Tyndale.htm   (570 words)

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