The English Bible

1. General Views
   A. Its purely literary impact on English writers is almost too great to be
        measured.
   B. Fourteenth century that a prose translation of part of the New Testament was
       made into Middle English
   C. Before the Reformation, translations were for the most part made against
        the Wishes of the Churches authorities.

2. John Wyclif(1324-84)
   A. a clergyman
   B. he did any of translating, inspired his followers to produce a translation of
       both Testaments in about 1380.
   C. John Purvey---after 15 years, revised the "Wycliff Bible".

3. William Tyndale(1484-1536)
    A. New Testament from the Greek and print it in Cologne in Germany in 1525---
         no approval by authorities
    B. Worms(in Germany)---the first Modern English version of the New Testament

4. Miles  Coverdale(owing to Tyndale and to the German Bible)
    -revising and reprinting his Bible in Paris in 1538

5. Authorized Version
    A. In 1604, king James I began to produce an English version of the Bible
    B. In 1611, the work was done. Now writers has not been influenced by it.

6. The version of the Bible before 1611---influences on Shakespeare: Tyndale and Coverdale