{"id":17273,"date":"2010-10-04T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T04:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=17273"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T04:03:14","slug":"matthew-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/04\/matthew-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/tyndale-bible-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/tyndale-bible-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1537 the first complete English-language Bible based upon Greek and Hebrew sources, the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_Bible\" target=\"_blank\"> Matthew Bible<\/a>, was published, with translations by<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Tyndale\" target=\"_blank\"> William Tyndale<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miles_Coverdale\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Coverdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frye in <em>Symbolism in the Bible<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Already in the Middle Ages, the question had arisen of  translating the Bible into the vernacular (or modern) languages.\u00a0 It was  resisted by authorities of the Church establishment, partly because the  issue very soon got involved with reform movements within the Church.\u00a0  One of these reform movements was led in England by John Wyclif, a  contemporary of Chaucer in the fourteenth century.\u00a0 His disciples,  working mainly after his death, produced an English translation of the  entire Bible, which was of course a translation of the Vulgate Latin  text, not of the Greek and Hebrew.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the Wycliffe Bible  became the basis for all future English translations.\u00a0 In the sixteenth  century, the Protestant Reformation broke out in Germany under Luther,  and one of Luther&#8217;s major efforts to consolidate his position was to  make a complete German translation of the Bible, which became among  other things the cornerstone of modern German literature.<\/p>\n<p>Similar efforts were made in England.\u00a0 Henry VIII, you remember,  declared himself to be head of the Church, but didn&#8217;t want to make any  alteration to Church doctrine, so he amused himself in his later years  by executing Protestants for heresy and Catholics for denying his claim  to be head of the Church.\u00a0 Thus, William Tyndale, the first person to  work on the translation of the Bible into English from Greek and Hebrew  sources, was a refugee and had to work on the Continent.\u00a0 Eventually he  was caught by Henry&#8217;s goon squad and transported back to England where  he was burned at the stake along with copies of his Bible.\u00a0 Henry VIII,  with that versatility of intention which is often found in people who  have tertiary syphilis, had begun his reign by being called &#8220;Defender of  the Faith&#8221; by the Pope, because he had written a pamphlet attacking  Martin Luther&#8211;that is to say, his minister Sir Thomas More had written  it but Henry had signed it.\u00a0 However, as &#8220;Defender of the Faith,&#8221; he  changed his mind about what faith he was going to defend, and in the  last years of his reign the English Bible in the hands of various other  translators, including Miles Coverdale, had become established as the official Bible for the Church of England for which he was now the head.\u00a0 (<em>CW <\/em>13, 420)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1537 the first complete English-language Bible based upon Greek and Hebrew sources, the Matthew Bible, was published, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. 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