Does anyone know of where to find pre-KJV English translations of the Bible?

[laconicsax]

I'm curious to read the Tyndale and "Great" Bibles.

[Jumping John]

1. Maybe here: I didn't really look at these sites

http://www.biblesofthepast.com/

From the above site I find the Tyndale Bible here:

http://www.biblesofthepast.com/Texts/1531-1534/_File.htm

And here is the Great Bible - 1540 I think:


http://www.biblesofthepast.com/Texts/1539-1540/_File.htm


http://www.genevabible.org/Geneva.html

[laconicsax]

6. Awesome, thanks!

[Petrushka]

5. Thank you for the link. (eom)

[laconicsax]

7. Great, thanks!

[Ian David]

3. You might also want to invest in a copy of Asimov's Guide to the Bible. n/t

[Geoff R. Casavant]

4. I second that recommendation.

Asimov does an incredible time of setting all the Bible books and stories in their historical and cultural context. You would be amazed at how much more you understand the words when you know when they were written and what was going on around the writer at the time.

[LeftishBrit]

8. The Tyndale Bible is available here

http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons-essays-books/william-tyndales-translation/

A few other early Bibles, if you are interested:


Geneva Bible:

http://studybible.info/version/Geneva

Bishops' Bible:

http://studybible.info/Bishops

Coverdale Bible:

http://www.studylight.org/desk/?l=en&query=Genesis+1&translation=mcb

[laconicsax]

9. Thanks. n/t

[struggle4progress]

10. I recently got a paperback of Tyndale's New Testament with modernized spelling

edited by David Daniell and published by Yale

Daniell mostly confines himself to such replacements as lyttel by little or a farre to afar; though in a few cases he has chosen to use a modern replacement, such as ensample by example or the now curious other by or, he mostly remains content with a very short glossary, telling us that mary means marrow and ought means owed and so on

[laconicsax]

11. Is this the one?

http://www.amazon.com/Tyndales-New-Testament-David-Daniell/dp/0300065809

[struggle4progress]

12. yep, bleeve zo!