An Introduction to Abbott ePublishing’s Tyndale21 Version of the Gospels

The Tyndale21 Version of the New Testament Gospels, produced exclusively by and for Abbott ePublishing, is the first stage of a proposed full New Testament revision of the William Tyndale New Testament translation of 1526 (and later revisions.)

This is not a brand new “translation,” per se, but rather an update of the 16th Century text that Tyndale produced. And it was a remarkable and important text in the history of translations. It was the first New Testament printed in English, it laid the foundations and gave much of the familiar wording to the King James Version of 1611, and was the first English Bible to be translated directly from the Greek language.

All the English Bibles up until that time had been translations from the Latin Vulgate, but Tyndale's New Testament was taken from the compilation of all Greek manuscripts known at that time.

The scholars who created the King James Version of the Bible in 1611 relied heavily on Tyndale's translation. Some estimate that nearly 83 percent of the King James Version New Testament contains Tyndale’s wording.

His renderings are unique and sometimes more starkly beautiful than many, many that have come after it.

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