Tyndale's Old Testament: Being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to 2 Chronicles of 1537, and JonahDavid Daniell Yale University Press, 1992 M01 1 - 643 pages In the 1530s William Tyndale translated the first fourteen books of the Old Testament into English from the original Hebrew, a translation that laid the foundation of all subsequent English bibles, including the celebrated Authorized Version (King James Bible) of 1611. Tyndale was the first to translate the Hebrew Bible into English—the first, in fact, to translate anything from Hebrew into English: At the time, that language was virtually unknown in England, and Tyndale had learned his excellent Hebrew while he was exiled to the Low Countries and Germany for political reasons. The publication of Tyndale's Old Testament, on top of his earlier and later translations of the New Testament, outraged the clerical establishment by giving the people access to the word of God in English. Tyndale was hunted down and subsequently burned at the stake for blasphemy. Tyndale translated and printed the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) in 1530 as a pocket book, revising Genesis in 1534. He also translated and printed the Book of Jonah, probably in 1531. In addition, there is now little doubt that after translating the Pentateuch, Tyndale went on to translate the historical books of the Old Testament—Joshua to 2 Chronicles—for there is overwhelming evidence that those books, as they appeared in the 1537 "Matthew's" Bible, were Tyndale's work. The present volume contains the Pentateuch (unavailable now except in an out-of-print and unreliably edited Victorian facsimile) and the historical books, which have not been in print since 1551 and are of great importance both to scholars and to the general reader. The spelling in the texts has been modernized to show them as the modern productions they once were, and Tyndale's introductions and marginal notes are included. David Daniell's introduction explores Tyndale's astonishing achievement in single-handedly turning the Hebrew into English of great variety, force, and beauty. |
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Contents
A Prologue Showing the Use of the Scripture | 7 |
A Table Expounding Certain Words | 81 |
A Prologue into the Third Book of Moses called Leviticus | 145 |
A Prologue into the Fourth Book of Moses called Numbers | 191 |
A Prologue into the Fifth Book of Moses called Deuteronomy | 254 |
The Book of Josua | 309 |
The Book of the Judges | 342 |
The Book of Ruth | 376 |
The Second Book of Samuel | 424 |
The First Book of the Kings | 460 |
The Second Book of the Kings | 502 |
The Chronicles of the Kings of Juda The First Book | 543 |
The Chronicles of the Kings of Juda The Second Book | 581 |
The Prologue to the Prophet Jonas | 628 |
The Story of the Prophet Jonas | 641 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aaron Abimelech Abraham altar Amorites begat behold Beniamin blessed blood brethren bring brought burnt offering byss called CHAPTER children of Israel cometh cubits daughter David delivered dwell dwelt earth Edom Egypt ephod flesh Galaad gold heart heave offering Hebrew holy host hundred Jacob Jehoram Jehosaphat Jeroboam Jerusalem Joab Jonathas Jordan Josua kindreds king of Israel king of Juda land of Egypt Levites Lord commanded Lord hath Lord said unto Lord spake unto Lord thy Manasses Merari Moab Moses offering unto Pharao Philistines priest prophet Ramoth Rehoboam reigned saith Salomon Saul Semei sent sheep sickles Sirians slew smote sons soul spake unto Moses tabernacle of witness tenth deals thereof thereto thine hand things thou hast thou shalt thousand thy father thy servant took tribe unclean unto the children unto the Lord unto thee unto thy Wherefore wife wilderness word