Translators of the Bible into English

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Chapters: John Wycliffe, Chaim Potok, William Tyndale, Myles Coverdale, John Rogers, John Nelson Darby, Hugh J. Schonfield, Richard Challoner, George Joye, Ronald Knox, Alexander Campbell, Helen Barrett Montgomery, Clarence Jordan, Nahum M. Sarna, Mary Sidney, George Lamsa, David Philipson, Jacob O. Meyer, Isaac Leeser, Philip Schaff, Joseph H. Hertz, Benjamin Wilson, Adolph Ernst Knoch, Eugene H. Peterson, Chana Bloch, Stephen Mitchell, Donald Foster Hudson, E. V. Rieu, Robert Alter, Olaf M. Norlie, Moshe Greenberg, Kenneth Wuest, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, Joseph Bryant Rotherham, Richard Taverner, David H. Stern, John Bertram Phillips, Steven T. Byington, Cyrus Adler, John Edgar McFadyen, Ralph Earle, Jr., John Trevisa, Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, Max Margolis, Everett Fox, Richmond Lattimore, George Constantine, Richard Francis Weymouth, Kenneth N. Taylor, Jay P. Green, Henry Wansbrough, Moisés Silva, Heinz Cassirer, Edgar J. Goodspeed, S. H. Hooke, Angelo Traina, Harry Orlinsky, Nathaniel N. Whiting, Hugo McCord, William F. Beck, George R. Noyes, Joseph Lilly, James Kleist. Excerpt: John Wycliffe ( ; also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, or Wickliffe) (c. 1328 - December 31, 1384), also known as Wycliffe John, was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church during the 14th century. His followers were known as Lollards, a somewhat rebellious movement, which preached anticlerical and biblically-centred reforms. The Lollard movement, was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation (for this reason,Wycliffe is sometimes called "The Morning Star of the Reformation"). He was one of the earliest opponents of papal authority influencing secular power. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible into the common language. He completed his translation directly from the Vulgate into vernacular English in the year 1382, now known as Wycliffe's Bible. It is probable that he personally translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; and it is possible he translated the entire New Testament, while his associates translated the Old Testament. Wycliffe's Bible appears to have been completed by 1384, with additional updated versions being done by Wycliffe's assistant John Purvey and others in 1388 and 1395. John WycliffeWycliffe was born in the factory village of modern-day Hipswell in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England in the mid-1320s. His family was long settled in Yorkshire. The family was quite large, covering considerable territory, principally centred around Wycliffe-on-Tees, about ten miles to the north of Hipswell. Wycliffe received his early education close to his home. It is not known when he first came to Oxford, with which he was so closely connected until the end of his life, but he is known to have been at Oxford around 1345. He was influenced by Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Bradwardine, William of Occam, and Richard Fitzralph. Wycliffe owed much to William of Occam's work