The Bible in English: John Wycliffe and William Tyndale

by John D. Long

How did the Bible get translated into English and made available to English-speaking people? The Bible in English tells the dramatic story of these events, and of the human costs involved. In this concise yet thorough study, John Long answers the above questions, exploring the lives and deaths of John Wycliffe and William Tyndale and explaining their roles in translating the Latin Vulgate and the New Testament, respectively. Long discusses the Roman Catholic Church's resistance to translation of the scriptures from Latin into English and other languages, and he shows which parts of Tyndale's translation endured to appear in the King James, Revised Standard, American Standard, New American Standards, New King James, and other translations of the Bible in English. This easy-to-read, comprehensive book is a fascinating study of a dramatic time in the Bible's history.

216 pages, Paperback

First published June 4, 1998

Reviews

[Joel Persell]

It is easy to take for granted the fact that we have free access to the Bible in our native language, but that was not always the case. This book may surprise you if you are not aware of the great pains taken by John Wycliffe and William Tyndale in their work of translating the Bible from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, into the native tongue of their people. Their stories are both thrilling and tragic, yet their work was not in vain. You will likely find yourself thanking God for these two men and their companions by the time you finish reading this book.