1980/10/01 by Gerald Hammond, Gerlad Hammond · 14 citations
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paper · doi:10.2307/2860912
published in Renaissance Quarterly 33(3), 351-385 (Cambridge University Press)
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The subject of this study is William Tyndale's 1530 translation of the Pentateuch. The historical and literary importance of Tyndale's Bible translation has been well established. In an England moving towards the Reformation he gave the greatest impulse to the use of the vernacular, and he laid the foundation for the "Biblical style" of the 1611 Authorized Version. What remains in dispute is the degree of Tyndale's independence: how far did he rely on his own resources, and how far was he dependent upon his predecessors, in particular Jerome's Vulgate, Luther's German Bible, the Latin translation of Pagninus, and the earlier English translation, the Wyclif Bible?