(June 18, 2012 at 6:48 pm)Shell B Wrote: They forgot to mention that the KJV is largely based on translations by a man that they burnt alive for translating the Bible from Latin.
Edited: Oh, sorry. They strangled him before burning him.
Yup; William Tyndale,first man to translate the bible directly from Greek to English.
For his trouble he was strangled and his body burnt,in Antwerp in 1536.
Quote:Within four years, at the same king's behest, four English translations of the Bible were published in England,[23] including Henry's official Great Bible. All were based on Tyndale's work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale
