Author: DANIELL, DAVID
Title: Tyndale's Old Testament. Being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to 2 Chronicles of 1537, and Jonah In a modern-spelling edition with an introduction by David Daniell
Description: Yale University Press, 1992. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 682. From the introduction: "William Tyndale"s Old Testament translations laid the foundation of our English Bible. They have been even more hidden from general view than his work on the New Testament. Half of what appears in this volume has not been generally accessible since 1551. Tyndale published his first translations from Hebrew into English-the earliest ever from that language into this-in 1530, when he printed his Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. He gave us our Bible language: the words and rhythms, for example, of the story of the Creation and the Fall-"Let there be light and there was light", "male and female created he them", "who told thee that thou wast naked? " and much else. Two generations later, in 1611, the scholars and divines who made the Authorised Version under King James were happy to use what Tyndale had given them, though without acknowledgement. Very many great passages from the Pentateuch come to us from Tyndale, like the blessing from Numbers 6: "The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. " Ringing phrases such as "For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire" or "a mighty hand and a. ISBN: 9780300052114. Cond./Kwaliteit: Redelijk.

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