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Tyndale translated the New Testament and large portions of the Old Testament into English from the original Hebrew and Greek texts. His translations were the first English scriptures drawn directly from those source languages, the first to use the printing press, and the first to introduce the name Jehovah into the English language.
Tyndale was convicted of Lutheran heresy in 1536 in the Netherlands, after being betrayed by Henry Phillips and held for a year and a half in the castle of Vilvoorde near Brussels. He was strangled at the stake and his body burned, most likely in early October 1536. The formal charges did not mention Bible translation, which was not illegal in the Netherlands; the conviction rested on his theological positions on justification by faith, free will, and the nature of the soul.
Estimates suggest the New Testament in the King James Version of 1611 is between 55% and 83% of Tyndale's words, and the first half of the Old Testament is 76% derived from his translation. The 47 scholars who produced the King James Version drew extensively from Tyndale's work after seven years of labor.
Tyndale's 1528 book The Obedience of a Christian Man argued that monarchs, not popes, should control a nation's church, marking the first instance of advocating the divine right of kings in England. His 1530 book The Practice of Prelates opposed King Henry VIII's plan to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, arguing the annulment was unscriptural, which made Tyndale an enemy of both the crown and the church.
Tyndale was born around 1494, most likely near Dursley in Gloucestershire, England. He enrolled at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1506 under the family name Hychyns, earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1512, and received his Master of Arts in July 1515. He also studied at the University of Cambridge between 1517 and 1521.
A bronze statue by Sir Joseph Boehm was erected in Victoria Embankment Gardens in London in 1884, showing Tyndale with his hand on a Bible resting on a printing press. A memorial also stands in Vilvoorde, Flanders, where he was executed, erected in 1913 by the Friends of the Trinitarian Bible Society and the Belgian Bible Society. The Tyndale Monument was built in 1866 above his supposed birthplace at North Nibley in Gloucestershire.