Next, Tyndale set out to translate the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. In the meantime, his contraband New Testaments were spreading across England.

Today, the ubiquitous Bible is largely taken for granted. But for the original English translators of the religious text, their work was a dangerous pursuit involving subversion, intrigue ...

William Tyndale (1494?-1536), who first translated the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew text, is one such forgotten pioneer. As David Daniell, ...

If you're not familiar with the work of William Tyndale, you should be. Even today, English speakers owe a debt to the man martyred at age 42 for the "heretical" act of translating the Bible into ...