29 June 2016, The Tablet

Chapter and verse

by Henry Wansbrough

 

The Murderous History of Bible Translations
Harry Freedman

There is hardly enough murder to justify the title, but murder there was – that of William Tyndale, the noble first translator of the Bible into modern English, kidnapped and later garrotted and burnt at the stake for his heretical, Lutheran tendencies. But there is plenty of skulduggery, and less bloodthirsty but scarcely less interesting drama and excitement.

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