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  1. Nelson Hollins
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Wm Tyndale would be very happy !
    January 2, 2014
    Nelson Hollins
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Mr. Tyndale wanted the Word of God in people's hands for a reasonable cost to them. This present $19.99 cbd.com SUPER SALE is the 1st time the 1526 has been offered 75% off !!! Even the Hardcover is $30 reg 47. As soon as I saw this in the 413916 Catalog : Item# AE562910 ( Reg $79.95)

    I ordered 12 copies. This 1st work of Wm. Tyndale reads better than his 1534 revised. This is THE ABSOLUTE BEST NEW TESTAMENT available today. What a glorious priviledge to have a BRAND NEW facsimile of 1 of the only 3 original copies left, in The British Museum.
  2. Tanya Mauk
    Florida
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Question?
    May 29, 2012
    Tanya Mauk
    Florida
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: female
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    I already wrote one review when I recieved the book and my opinion in that review hasn't changed, except that I am almost done reading it and I noticed that after Philemon, it goes to I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John, III John, Hebrews, James, Jude, then Revelations. Whereas in my other Bibles, of which I have the 1560 Geneva Bible also, it goes from Philemon to Hebrews, James, I Peter, II Peter, I John, II John, III John, then Jude, which the latter order is the same also in my other Bibles. So, therefore I do not know whether it was put together in the wrong order, or that is the order in which it was in the beginning, since it is the oldest Bible of them all. Does anybody know?
  3. Mark H.
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    The Most BEAUTIFUL Bible I Own
    June 16, 2017
    Mark H.
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    Please treat yourself to this small, full-color reproduction of one of the earliest translations of the New Testament in the English language, available in black, soft genuine leather with a sewn binding and gilt edges. If you are a Protestant, you may not know that Tyndale GAVE HIS LIFE to translate and publish the New Testament (and later the entire Holy Bible) into English at a time when both Church and State forbade all but the Roman Catholic Vulgate Latin Bible, depriving English-speaking Christians of reading the Word of God in their own language. This is a true facsimile, with EVERY PAGE in beautiful full color. I would recommend buying this exquisite little New Testament if it cost $350 or even more; at ChristianBook.com's price, it is an unbelievable bargain. Please buy it while you can and sample your Christian heritage, an Early-Modern-English (1526) translation that helped make possible the eventual publication of the revolutionary and beloved King James Bible nearly a century later in 1611. With every page of the New Testament reproduced in full color, this is by far the most beautiful Bible I own. It is the perfect gift for yourself, your parents, your pastor, or for anyone interested in the history of the English Bible or the English language itself.
  4. Lance Burgess
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    January 8, 2010
    Lance Burgess
    If you're a student of the Bible and history, then you know what an important piece of English history the William Tyndale translation of the New Testament is. To make it available in such a quality reproduction as this makes it a true teasure to have in your personal library. I cannot recommend it highly enough.This is a wonderfully made Bible. The genuine leather binding is heavy and sturdy. The pages are thick and gold-edged. The recreation of the pages from the British Library's copy is of the utmost clarity.Buy it. Read it. Enjoy it. Learn from it. Live by it. As Tyndale translates in John 6 - "It is the spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you are spirit and life."
  5. Bob Hayton
    St. Paul, MN
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: Male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    beautiful fascimile reprint of a classic text
    May 28, 2011
    Bob Hayton
    St. Paul, MN
    Age: 35-44
    Gender: Male
    In the realm of English Bible translation, one name stands supreme. William Tyndale is the man most responsible for the English Bibles we use today. The King James Version owes a great debt to William Tyndale, very often borrowing Tyndale's expressions, phrasing and insight into how to use short, concise English words to convey the meaning of the original Greek New Testament. Some say upwards of 85 percent of the words in the King James Bible originate from Tyndale's work. Later English Bibles owe an indirect debt to Tyndale through their continued dependence on the King James Version's phrasing, often borrowed from Tyndale.

    In England perhaps more than any other area in Europe, the Reformation was birthed from the presence of the vernacular Bible. John Wycliffe's Bible, various translations from the Latin under his name, had a wide impact on England. But a mere ten years after Erasmus offered the first printed Greek New Testament, William Tyndale gave his English New Testament to the English people. While Tyndale himself was strangled and burned in 1536, only 4 years later his prayer for England was answered. Tyndale's last words are reported to have been: "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." In 1538, Thomas Cromwell under the authority of the King called for a publicly available translation and by 1539 the first authorized English Bible, the Great Bible, was made available to Tyndale's beloved England.

    Of Tyndale's original 1526 New Testament, only three copies survive today. One of those three is in beautiful condition and was purchased by the British Library for more than one million pounds in 1994. Hendrickson Publishers has a beautiful hardback edition with a full color fascimile reproduction of this 1526 Tyndale treasure. The original size of the Tyndale edition was a small octavo size made for the pocket and the Hendrickson reprint is 6.6 x 4.9 x 1.6 inches and matches that smaller feel. The copied pages are very clear, the colorful first letters of chapters and paragraph breaks come through as brilliant as the original with gold lettering and all. Several full color pictures of the various NT authors appear at the beginning of the various books in the New testament, and these miniature portraits are vivid and clear. What's striking is how high the quality is of this 16th Century printing. The lack of verses is also interesting to a modern eye, as they didn't exist until 1550.

    The book includes a helpful introduction by David Daniell, author of "William Tyndale: A Biography (Nota Bene)" (Yale University Press, 2001). Daniell illustrates Tyndale's masterful command of English and contrasts his work with the Wycliffe Bibles that we still possess today. After the ten page introduction, which helpfully offers a few pointers in making sense of the block, Black Letter print type and out-dated orthography, the fascimile reproduction is given. There are no long treatises explaining Scripture nor any marginal explanations. A small intro of a few lines exists on the only surviving title page of the 1526 edition. And a brief two page "To the Reader" colophon concludes the text.

    Tyndale is reported to have once remarked to a "learned man", "I defy the Pope and all his laws... if God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plough, shall know more of scripture than thou dost." God saw fit to bless Tyndale's desire and bring it to pass. Today we are incredibly blessed in large part due to his sacrifice. This edition of Tyndale's work brings this wonderful history closer to home and allows one to examine the very first English New Testament translated from the original Greek language. I will close this review with the concluding paragraph from Tyndale's "To the Reader."

    "Them that are learned Christianly, I beseech: forasmuch as I am sure, and my conscience beareth me record, that of a pure intent, singly and faithfully I have interpreted it, as far forth as God gave me the gift of knowledge and understanding that the rudeness of the work now at the first time offend them not, but that they consider how that I had no man to counterfeit, neither was helped {holp} with English of any that had interpreted the same or such like things in the Scripture beforetime. Moreover, even very necessity and cumbrance (God is record) above strength which I will not rehearse, lest we should seem to boast ourselves, caused that many things are lacking which necessarily are required. Count it as a thing not having his full shape, but as it were born before his time, even as a thing begun rather than finished. In time to come (if God have appointed us thereunto) we will give it his full shape, and put out if ought be added superfluously, and add to if ought be overseen thorow negligence, and will enforce to bring to compendiousness that which is now translated at the length, and to give light where it is required, and to seek in certain places more proper English, and with a table to expound the words which are not commonly used and shew how the Scripture useth many words which are wother wise understood of the common people, and to help with a declaration where one tongue taketh not another; and will endeavor ourselves, as it were, to seeth [[meaning, boil or cook]] it better, and to make it more apt for the weak stomachs; desiring them that are learned and able, to remember their duty, and to help thereunto, and to bestow unto the edifying of Christ's body (which is the congregation of them that believe) those gifts which they have received of God for the same purpose. The grace that cometh of Christ be with them that love him."

    Disclaimer: This book was provided by Hendrickson Publishers for review. I was under no obligation to offer a favorable review.
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