WILLIAM BLAKE loved the Bible. A picture that he painted when he was in his 20s testifies to the devotion. Now entitled An Allegory of the Bible, the image shows a procession of women and children ...

Language powerfully shapes thought. Perhaps the most powerful shaper of English was William Tyndale. Tyndale's translation of the Bible into English is rich in theological and political implications.

Meanwhile, William Tyndale's 1526 Bible was the first English version that was translated from the Bible's original languages of Hebrew and Greek – although it was not a complete version.

More than 60% of the King James version of the Bible was lifted word for word from earlier translations, reported Charles C. Butterworth in The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible (University ...

At the same time, religious reformers, like William Tyndale and Martin Luther, and, later, a committee of translators assembled by King James, translated the Bible into the languages of everyday ...

In 1534 William Tyndale produced his revised New Testament, which was an overhaul of his previous New Testament, complete with prologues. This New Testament was produced for both private reading and ...

Martin Luther’s German Bible (1534) was a game-changer that helped standardise the German language and sparked a trend of translating the Bible into everyday languages people spoke. In England, ...

The Rev. William Barber on Trump’s Holy Week Gambit: “The Bible Exposes Grifters” Trump is trying to hawk Bibles to his followers. Barber and others are not convinced.

On one of the first pages in the Bible, William Turpin kept a handwritten list of names and details of dozens of enslaved people he freed between 1807 and 1826. (Courtesy: South Carolina State Museum) ...

Through the stories of John Wycliffe, William Tyndale and Thomas Cranmer — the brave reformers who paid the ultimate price to bring the Bible to the people in a language they could understand ...