500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published – and stirred up a hornet’s nest
The first verses of the Gospel of John, from a facsimile edition of William Tyndale's 1525 English translation of the New Testament. (Kevin Rawlings/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY)
(The Conversation) — William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
