William Tyndale was an English biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament was the first English Bible in 1526 to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English translation to take advantage of the printing press, the first of the new English Bibles of the Reformation, and the first English translation to use Jehovah (“Iehouah”) as God’s name .as preferred by English Protestant Reformers. Tyndale’s translation of the Bible was used for subsequent English translations, including the Great Bible and the Bishops’ Bible, authorized by the Church of England. for his reformist views, he was convicted of heresy and executed by strangulation, after which his body was burnt at the stake in 1536.
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