Matthew's Bible, also known as the Matthew Bible, is the first complete English translation of the Bible (not just the Old Testament or New Testament) published in Events January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. Pope Paul III publishes the encyclical Sublimis Deus, which declares the natives of the New World to be rational beings with souls... 1537 under the pseudonym 'Thomas Matthew'. The Matthew Bible was the combined work of three individuals, working from numerous sources in at least five different languages.

The Pentateuch, the Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, First and Second Samuel, First and Second Kings, First Chronicles, and the entire New Testament (previously published in 1526) were the work of William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindale) (ca.1484 - October 6, 1536) was a 16th century priest and scholar who translated the Bible into an early form of Modern English. Although numerous partial and complete English translations had been made from the 7th century onward, Tyndales was the first to take... William Tyndale. Tyndale worked directly from the Hebrew and Greek, occasionally consulting the Vulgate and Erasmus’s Latin version, and referencing Luther's Bible for the prefaces and marginal notes

The remaining books of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha were the work of Myles Coverdale (also Miles Coverdale) (c1488 - January 20, 1568) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English. He was born probably in the district known as Cover-dale, in that part of the North Riding of Yorkshire called Richmondshire, England... Myles Coverdale. Coverdale translated primarily from German and Latin sources.

The Song of Manasses was the work of John Rogers (c. 1500 - 1555) was a minister, Bible translator and commentator, and the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England. He was born in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge University, where he graduated B.A. in 1526. Six years later... John Rogers. Rogers translated from a French Bible printed two years earlier (in 1535). Rogers compiled the completed work and added the preface, some marginal notes, a calendar and almanac.

The Matthew Bible was probably published by Sir Jacobus van Meteren was a/the? financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible. He was a/the? financier and publisher of the Coverdale Old Testament, the printing of which was completed on the 4th of October 1535. He was also a/the? publisher of Matthew Bible... Jacobus van Meteren, who had published Coverdale's Old Testament in 1536. In the same year Tyndale entrusted his completed translations to Rogers. Van Meteren was then able to provide Rogers with Coverdale's translations of the missing portions.

Of the three translators, two were burned at the stake. Tyndale was burned on October 6, 1536 in Vilvoorden, Belgium at the instigation of agents of Henry VIII and the Anglican Church. John Rogers was "tested by fire" on February 04, 1554/55 at Smithfield, near Warwick, Nottinghamshire, England; the first to meet this fate under Mary I Queen of England and Ireland Mary I (February 18, 1516–November 17, 1558) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from July 6, 1553 (de jure) or July 19, 1553 (de facto) until her death. Mary, the fourth and penultimate monarch of the Tudor dynasty, is... Mary I of England. Myles Coverdale was employed by Cromwell to work on the Great Bible of 1538/1539, the first officially authorized English translation of the Bible.

Historians often tend to treat Coverdale and Tyndale like competitors in a race to complete the monumental and arduous task of translating the biblical text. One is often credited to the exclusion of the other. In reality they knew each other and occasionally worked together. Foxe states that they were in Hamburg translating the Pentateuch together as early at 1529.

Van Meteren's son, Emanuel van Meteren (September 6, 1535 - April 11, 1612) was a Flemish historian and Consul for the Traders of the Low Countries in London. He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Orrilia Ortellius, of... Emanuel stated in an affidavit dated 28 May 1609 that his father was "a furtherer of reformed religion, and he that caused the first Bible at his costes to be Englisshed by Mr Myles Coverdal in Andwarp, the w’h his father, with Mr Edward Whytchurch, printed both in Paris and London." In 1535 and 1536 both Coverdale and Tyndale were in the employed as translators by J. van Meteren. Rogers began assisting Tyndale around 1535, and married J. van Meteren's niece Adriana of Antwerp, Adriana de Weyden, Adriana Pratt (b.1522). Married John Rogers around 1537 in Antwerp. John Rogers was compiling a complete English version of the Bible, the Matthew Bible, at the time, which Adrianas uncle, Sir Jacobus van Meteren published in 1537. Weyden means meadows and when... Adriana in the same year that the Matthew Bible was published (1537).

Time and extensive scholastic scrutiny have judged Tyndale the most gifted of the three translators. Dr Westcott in his History of the English Bible states that "The history of our English Bible begins with the work of Tyndale and not with that of Wycliffe." His translations are directly from the Hebrew and Greek, rather than translations of previous translations from those languages. The quality of his translations have also stood the test of time, coming relatively intact even into modern versions of the Bible.

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