Coverdale Bible

The Coverdale Bible (English Coverdale Bible) is an English translation of the Bible, which was first released in 1535.

The brought out by Myles Coverdale Bible for the first time a complete and modern English translation of the Bible was printed.

Translation

William Tyndale, who had started in the 1520s with the translation of the Bible, was arrested in 1535 and 6 October 1536 Vilvoorde (Belgium ) was executed before he could carry out his work to an end. With his Bible, from 1535, Myles Coverdale completed the existing Tyndale translated the Bible texts to a full translation. For this purpose, he added missing books of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.

Coverdale has translated mainly from German and from Latin sources. Historians tend sometimes to Coverdale and Tyndale as competitors in the race of translating the complete English Bible represent, and do not mention that the two knew each other in reality and that they worked together occasionally. Already in 1529 she translated the Pentateuch in Hamburg together. Coverdale's work was published on 4 October 1535 was printed abroad.

Parts of Coverdale's translation flowed in the 1537 Matthew Bible a.

Thomas Cromwell employed Myles Coverdale later work on the Great Bible of 1539, the first officially approved English translation of the Bible.

Bible editions

  • The Coverdale Bible 1535 [ Facsimile]. Dawson, 1975, ISBN 978-0712906586
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