William Tyndale built a lot of his work on Wycliff's, but, as a Greek scholar, he was able to use both Jerome's wonderful latin text, as well as Erasmus' Greek text. Tyndale completed his New Testament in 1525 and his Pentateuch in 1530. It is an interesting side note that Tyndale, called the greatest of the English translators by many, did his translations primarily in Europe, since the British Isles were not safe for him. As he ran and hid an translated, across the European Continent through the early 1500's, he produced a document that would for centuries be the basis for the english Bible, since 90% of the Tyndale New Testament made it's way into the King James Version of 1611. Tyndale didn't have time to finish the Old Testament: He was betrayed and arrested in Brussels in 1535. He was Strangled and then burnt.
Lion's History of Christianity & Thompson's notes.
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