Guido Latre

Tyndale's Testament (Single Titles & Reprints in Modern & Contemporary History) Guido Latre

In the era of the early Reformation many influential texts were printed in Antwerp. Not the least of these were the biblical translations of William Tyndale (c. 1494-1536). Despite the relative tolerance of Antwerp's magistrates, which made such publications possible, Tyndale was seized by officers of Charles V and was eventually executed as a heretic in the little town of Vilvoorde, just north of Brussels. TyndaleAes translations of the New Testament (Worms, 1526; Antwerp, 1531?, 1534, 1535, 1536) and of the Pentateuch (Antwerp, 1530) were profoundly to shape future English Bible translations, and through them the language and culture of the English-speaking world. 'Tyndale's Testament' puts the achievement of Tyndale into its broad cultural and intellectual context, in which Erasmus and Luther were the key figures, and into its immediate commercial and technological location in sixteenth-century Antwerp. It also sketches the transmission of Tyndale's translations through the Coverdale Bible (Antwerp?, 1535) to his present-day recognition as the father of modern English Bible translation and of the Anglo-American Evangelical tradition.