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          That William Tyndale translated and published, in , the first-ever mechanically-printed New. Testament in the English language?

        1. That William Tyndale translated and published, in , the first-ever mechanically-printed New. Testament in the English language?
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        4. William Tyndale was a most remarkable scholar and lin guist, whose eight languages included skill in Greek and Hebrew far above the ordinary for an Englishman.
        5. William Tyndale, a biography: a contribution to the early history of the English Bible ; Publication date: ; Topics: Tyndale, William, d.

          6. The Father of the English Bible

          William Tyndale (1494-1536) dedicated his life to the translation of the Bible into English. It was the pioneering efforts of Bible-translators like Tyndale, along with the martyr-fires of those such as Ridley and Latimer, of Lady Jane Grey and Anne Askew that helped transform England into a Protestant nation.

          Born into an important family in the west of Gloucestershire, Tyndale studied at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between 1510 and 1521. As Cambridge was teeming with Lutheran ideas at the time, Tyndale may have then adopted his Protestant convictions.

          He later complained that the universities taught heathen studies while neglecting serious study of Scripture until most had lost their appetite to understand such spiritual truth. After his time at university Tyndale was ordained at some point.

          Fluent in seven languages and a scholar of Hebrew and Greek, Tyndale observed that most English clergy knew little more of the Bible than what