Tyndale Bible

William Tyndale's translation stands as a foundational source for the later English Bible, and much of his wording survives in the King James Version and beyond. In scope it comprises the complete New Testament together with the Pentateuch, Jonah, and other Old Testament portions, worked directly from Greek and Hebrew rather than from the Latin Vulgate. Its base texts were the Erasmus Greek New Testament and the Hebrew Old Testament, informed by the philology of the day. The guiding philosophy was a clear, direct vernacular that nevertheless remained formally attentive, and the result falls into the category of a fresh translation rather than a revision. Among its distinctive features, it was the first printed English New Testament translated directly from Greek, and the first major English Old Testament work rendered directly from Hebrew, placing it at the beginning of the tradition of printed vernacular Bibles in English.