Tyndale Monument

Further down the Cotswold Edge, at Hawkesbury, is the Somerset Monument, erected in 1846, and the design of the Tyndale tower has features in common with this.

It passes numerous places of interest, including the site of the Battle of Lansdowne, the Somerset Monument, the Tyndale Monument, Sudeley Castle, Cleeve Hill, Hailes Abbey, and the Broadway Tower.

In his memory the Tyndale Monument stands on Nibley Knoll just above the village, at on the Cotswold Way and is a fine viewpoint.

The views from the churchyard are also splendid, with the Nibley Monument to William Tyndale clearly visible on the horizon and the Somerset Monument to Lord Edward Somerset to the right, both notable landmarks.

* 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible ( the Coverdale Bible ) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

The oldest full manuscript of the Talmud is from 1342, known as the Munich Talmud and was purchased in a hotly contested auction from New York based Christies by Tyndale House of the UK.

The Confutation is written as a dialogue between More and Tyndale in which More responds to each of Tyndale ’ s criticisms of Catholic rites and doctrines.

More's influential role in the burning of Tyndale is reported by Moynahan.

* April – May – William Tyndale is arrested in Antwerp and imprisoned in Vilvoorde.

* October 4 – The first complete English-language Bible is printed in Antwerp, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

Edward Smith is recorded in two genealogies as having been the brother of Sir William Tyndale, of Deane, Northumberland, and Hockwald, Norfolk, who was knighted at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales to Katherine of Aragon.

Around 1529, it is possible that Tyndale intended to move to Hamburg, carrying on his work.

* The New Testament is translated into English by William Tyndale.

Coverdale is honoured together with William Tyndale with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) 6th October.

A particularly modern example is The Holy Bible, Timothy Botts Illustrated edition ( Tyndale House Publishers 2000 ), with 360 calligraphic images as well as a calligraphy typeface.

A. S. Herbert, Bible cataloguer, says of the Matthew Bible, " this version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, is generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible ".

The English rendering was substantially based on the earlier translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale ( more than 80 percent of the language in the Genevan Bible is from Tyndale ).

Textus Receptus ( Latin: " received text ") is the name subsequently given to the succession of printed Greek texts of the New Testament which constituted the translation base for the original German Luther Bible, the translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale, the King James Version, and most other Reformation-era New Testament translations throughout Western and Central Europe.

It is in keeping with the somewhat malicious saying about Foxe, reported by William Tyndale, that he would sacrifice his father to save his king, which is not so damning as Wolsey's dying words.

Tyndale is also unique in that he was the first of the Middle English translators to use the printing press to help distribute several thousand copies of this translation throughout England.

It is also home to campuses of York University, Seneca College, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Tyndale University College and Seminary.

It was built in honour of William Tyndale, a translator of the New Testament, who is believed to have been born at North Nibley.

In the town of Thornbury there is a street called Tyndale View where the tower can be seen from approximately 10 miles away.

North Nibley is the probable birthplace of William Tyndale, who was responsible for translating the New Testament into English, and for which he was later sentenced to death by burning at the stake in Vilvoorde, Flanders.

* Genesis Reading Room ( Tyndale Seminary ): online commentaries and monographs on Genesis.

* New Testament Reading Room: Extensive on-line New Testament resources ( including reference works, commentaries, translations, atlases, language tools, and works on New Testament theology ), Tyndale Seminary

In 1530, Tyndale also wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's divorce on the grounds that it contravened Scripture.

Sharing Erasmus ' translation ideals, Tyndale took the ill-regarded, unpopular and awkward Middle-English " vulgar " tongue, improved upon it using Greek and Hebrew syntaxes and idioms, and formed an Early Modern English basis Shakespeare and others would later follow and build on as Tyndale-inspired vernacular forms took over.

Hence, The Tyndale Bible, as it was known, continued to play a key role in spreading Reformation ideas across the English-speaking world and eventually, on the global British Empire.

Tyndale preached and studied " at his book " in London for some time, relying on the help of a cloth merchant, Humphrey Monmouth.

William Tyndale then left England and landed on the continent, perhaps at Hamburg, in the spring of the year 1524, possibly travelling on to Wittenberg.

From an entry in George Spalatin's Diary, on 11 August 1526, it seems that Tyndale remained at Worms about a year.

Tyndale was burned on 6 October 1536 in Vilvoorde, Belgium.

* Postmodernity and the Emerging Church Movement: Reading Room: Extensive online resources on the Emerging Church Movement, Tyndale University College and Seminary

Tyndale was compelled to flee at one time with a few printed sheets and complete his work on another press.

Although Wycliffe's Bible circulated widely in the later Middle Ages, it had very little influence on the first English biblical translations of the reformation era such as those of William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, as it had been translated from the Latin Vulgate rather than the original Greek and Hebrew ; and consequently it was generally ignored in later English Protestant biblical scholarship.

Tyndale had a huge influence on Frith ’ s religious views, and the two encountered much danger for their stance on purgatory.

* Margaretta Bampfylde ( d. December 1792 ), married on 31 December 1753 George Tyndale ( 1704 – 1771 ).

This series was created following the success of Focus on the Family's involvement in Tyndale House Publishing's video project, McGee and Me.

Tyndale was born at some time in the period 1484 – 1496, possibly in one of the villages near Dursley, Gloucestershire.

The Tyndale family also went by the name Hychyns ( Hitchins ), and it was as William Hychyns that Tyndale was enrolled at Magdalen College School, Oxford.

Tyndale began a Bachelor of Arts degree at Magdalen Hall ( later Hertford College ) of Oxford University in 1506 and received his B. A.

Tyndale became chaplain to the house of Sir John Walsh at Little Sodbury and tutor to his children in about 1521.

After the harsh meeting with Bell and other church leaders, and near the end of Tyndale's time at Little Sodbury, John Foxe describes an argument with a " learned " but " blasphemous " clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, " We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.

William Tyndale, before being strangled and burned at the stake, cries out, " Lord, open the King of England's eyes ".

The king's wrath was aimed at Tyndale: Henry asked the Emperor Charles V to have the writer apprehended and returned to England under the terms of the Treaty of Cambrai, however, the Emperor responded that formal evidence was required before extradition.

Tyndale " was strangled to death while tied at the stake, and then his dead body was burned ".

Hitton was, according to Tyndale, tortured and executed at the stake for heresy.

Its ante-chapel houses a stained-glass window depicting William Tyndale, made in 1911 for the British and Foreign Bible Society, and installed at Hertford in 1994.

He was educated at Oxford University, where he studied the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages, and also became familiar with the ( banned ) writings of Martin Luther and William Tyndale as well as the technology of printing.

Here he became friends with John Frith and William Tyndale, and became a member of the group of humanist theologians that met at the White Horse Tavern-a group that included the future Lutherans Edward Fox and Robert Barnes, and the arch-conservative Stephen Gardiner.

In the late 1980s, Taylor and his colleagues at Tyndale House Publishers invited a team of 90 Greek and Hebrew scholars to participate in a project of revising the text of The Living Bible.

Tyndale was a priest who graduated at Oxford, was a student in Cambridge when Martin Luther posted his theses at Wittenberg and was troubled by the problems within the Church.