October 6 is the customary date on which the death of the Protestant martyr William Tyndale in Belgium in 1536 is commemorated, though the precise date of his death — which occurred sometime in early ...

Their names are mostly lost to history now–Geoffrey King, Lancelot Andrewes, Miles Smith and dozens more–but the book that brought them all together, the King James Bible, remains “the greatest work ...

Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old an ...

English-speaking Christians were handed the King James Bible 400 years ago. But much of it was copied from a translation made 50 years earlier by William Tyndale. Rev. Paul Cross, who teaches at the ...

This year marks the 500th anniversary of one of the most world-changing books ever printed: William Tyndale’s English New Testament. Published in 1526, it was the first printed version of the New ...

Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. David Daniell’s tome features five shelves crowded with leather-bound Bibles on the front cover and a woodcut of William Tyndale’s martyrdom on the back.

William Tyndale was burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English. He loaded our language with more phrases than any other writer before or since, says Melvyn Bragg. 06 June 2013 • 7:00am ...

I say this as a secular person: Read the Bible. It will make you a better writer. The more Bible prose is in you, the less likely you will be to ever write a really bad English sentence. Don’t take my ...