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The most important year in the history of the English Bible is without doubt
the year 1611 when the King James Authorized Version was first published.
However, the most important person in the history of the English Bible is not
King James or one of his translators, it is William Tyndale.
Tyndale’s singular focus was to get the Bible in English into the hands of
the people. The outlines of his life are generally known. This study is limited
to Tyndale’s New Testaments of 1525/1526—the 500th anniversary of which is
upon us. It addresses all of the issues surrounding them that have puzzled
historians of the English Bible.
Everyone acquainted with even the basics of English Bible history knows that
Tyndale published the first New Testament in English translated directly from
the Greek in 1526, of which only three copies have survived. What is not
generally known, though, is that before Tyndale published his New Testament in
1526, he made an earlier attempt to do so in 1525. It survives only in a
fragment held by the British Library.
