Friday, 17 January 2014

William Tyndale mentioned in the NYT Review of Books!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/books/review/nick-hornbys-ten-years-in-the-tub-and-more.html?_r=0

The NYT carries a review of A LITTLE HISTORY OF LITERATURE
By John Sutherland
Yale University, $25. 


Key quote: "The Bible chapter centers on William Tyndale, for example, imprisoned and executed for heresy, whose early translation of the New Testament, banned in England, would become the foundation for the King James Bible published in 1611: “It has been estimated that 80 percent of the King James Version is verbally unaltered from Tyndale’s translation of 80 years earlier.”

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