The English New Testament - from Tyndale to the Revised Standard Version

This is an account of some of the difficulties involved in the effort to translate the New testament into English - from Tyndale's creative work in the early sixteenth century through the successive revisions which in t ime gave us the versions of 1611, 1881, 1901 and onwards. Contents Include The English Bible to 1611 The Church and English Vernacular Tyndale and the King James Version The Authorised Version in Three Centuries The Revised Standard Version of the New Testament The use of the New Testament In Worship. Keywords: New Testament King James Version English Vernacular Tyndale English Bible Sixteenth Century Creative Work Revised Standard Version Ime Revisions