EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY This popular sentiment is outlined several times in the Bible (Luke 12:19 ... comes from William Tyndale’s translation of the Bible in 1526, and in particular his ...

William Tyndale (1494?-1536), who first translated the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew text, is one such forgotten pioneer. As David Daniell, the author of the latest ...

William Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English ... unheedingly quoting from Tyndale’s 1526 translation of the New Testament (Matthew 5:38).

SIR - Adam Nicolson's article on the Authorised Version of the Bible (Arts and ... if ever there was one. Tyndale's superb New Testament reached these shores in 1526, 85 years before the ...

A memorial tablet to William Tyndale, Bible translator, was unveiled in the south choir ... It was not popular with the church authorities in England and many copies were burned in 1526. He lived ...

Tyndale had published the first pocket sized Bible in 1526 so that 'even the boy that driveth the plough' could read it. Tyndales's Bibles were burnt (only three survive) but his idea remained.

William Tyndale, who was born in the county in 1494, translated the bible from Hebrew and Greek which then became the basis of the King James Bible. To mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of ...