William Tyndale, his Bible, and Tyndale House's 60th Year

We recently celebrated 60 years at Tyndale House, with a day conference
about William Tyndale and his Bible, as well as our own history.
David Daniell gave an entertaining and informative account based on his
acclaimed biography of William Tyndale. To see and hear some of the day
go to http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/Tour/Aerial.htm and click on
"60th Anniversary". If you can't hear the talks, we'll gladly send a CD.
More about William Tyndale and the history of the English Bible:

1) History of translating the English Bible
2) History of William Tyndale and his Bible
3) Copies of Tyndale's Bible on the Web
4) Tyndale's other writings on the Web


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1) History of translating the English Bible
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Diagram of translations from LXX through Tyndale to modern English
(Looks better printed than in a browser. Set the printer to Landscape)
http://www.threetwoone.org/diagrams/bible-editions-timeline.gif
Wikipedia encyclopaedia article
- Protestant viewpoint with 'corrections' and useful side articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_Bible
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia article
- detailed Protestant viewpoint
http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/3101
1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
- a useful scholarly account with a different viewpoint
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/catholic/scriptures/articles.htm
Bible-Researcher - detailed timeline with links to useful articles
http://www.bible-researcher.com/history2.html
History of the Bible exhibition at Los Angeles University Cathedral
- a detailed illustrated tour of Dr. Gene Scott's collection
http://www.drgenescott.com/bibintro.htm


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2) History of William Tyndale and his Bible
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Short Life of William Tyndale
http://www.tyndale.org/DeCoursey/life.html
Tyndale History Timeline
http://www.williamtyndale.com/0reformationtimeline.htm
Tyndale - Encyclopedia Britannica (1911)
http://www.bible-researcher.com/tyndale5.html
Detailed Biography by Herbert Samworth
http://www.solagroup.org/articles/historyofthebible/hotb_0004.html
Detailed biography by Jules Grisham
http://www.thirdmill.org/files/english/html/ch/CH.h.Grisham.Tyndale.1.html
The Tyndale Society - lots more information, publications and links
http://www.tyndale.org/


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3) Copies of Tyndale's Bible on the Web
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There are very few 'real' Tyndale Bibles left in the world:
Gold Room: Real Tyndale Bibles for sale? Treasures nevertheless.
http://www.greatsite.com/ancient-rare-bibles-books/gold.html
British Library copy of Tyndale's 1525 NT (one of only two surviving)
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/tyndale.html

Tyndale's original-spelling text has recently become available, free.
You can get it for a few programs. Others will probably follow soon.
The Sword Project for PC, Mac & Linux:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles
BiblePlus & UniBible for Palm
http://www.freewarepalm.com/religion/williamtyndalebible(biblereader).shtml
http://unbound.biola.edu/unibible/downloads.cfm


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4) Tyndale's other writings on the Web
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A Compendious Introduction to Romans - nowhere on the Web
A Treatise of the Paternoster - nowhere on the Web
The Testament of William Tracy - nowhere on the Web
A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments - full text at:
http://www.williamtyndale.com/0sacraments.htm
The Parable of the Wicked Mammon - full text at:
http://www.maranathamedia.com.au/Download/Books/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Wicked%20Mammon.pdf
A Pathway to Holy Scripture - full text at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0415969697/ref=sib_rdr_ref/104-7764235-8043134?%5Fencoding=UTF8&keywords=Pathway%20to%20the%20holy%20scripture&v=search-inside
The previous text uses Amazon Search Inside, which requires that you
apply for a free Amazon ID but you don't have to buy anything or get
advertising emails. The following come from the same publication:
The Practice of Prelates - substantial excerpts at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0415969697/104-7764235-8043134?v=search-inside&keywords=Practice%20of%20Prelates
The Obedience of a Christian Man - substantial excerpts at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0415969697/104-7764235-8043134?v=search-inside&keywords=obedience%20of%20a%20Christian%20man
An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue - substantial excerpts at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0415969697/104-7764235-8043134?v=search-inside&keywords=Answer%20unto%20Sir%20Thomas
An Exposition of I John - substantial excerpts at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0415969697/104-7764235-8043134?v=search-inside&keywords=exposition%20upon%20John
An Exposition upon V, VI, VII Matthew - substantial excerpts at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0415969697/104-7764235-8043134?v=search-inside&keywords=exposition%20upon%20Matthew

Church History Documents on Web

Church History resources on the Web are growing, but the best ones
remain expensive. There have been some recent commercial developments
which are very important.

1) Migne's Patrologiae Graecae
2) English Short Title Catalogue (STC)
3) Early English Books Online (EEBO)
3) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
4) Patrologia Latina
5) Free Church History Documents on the Web

====================================================================== 1) Migne's Patrologiae Graecae
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The whole 160 volumes are being published in facsimile form, which would
fill about 200 CDs, so it is distributed on an external hard drive.
There will be limited searching facilities through completely rewritten
indexes, but the text itself will NOT be searchable. A searchable text
version is planned for the future, but this will be a huge work.
It is expensive, though there is a prepublication price till the
end of March 2003. See http://rosetta.reltech.org/reltech/PG/
Before buying it, I would check out TLG (see below). Aren't all or
most of the works in Migne in the TLG? And TLG texts are fully
searchable, based on modern texts, and linked to a lexicon.
Of course Migne is still important because many older history books
refer to Migne's text and page numbers. And Minge is a once-only
payment whereas TLG is a subscription.

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2) English Short Title Catalogue (STC)
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This lists all the books printed in Great Britain or any of its
dependencies in any language, as well as for materials printed in
English anywhere else in the world from 1473-1800. The original
'Short Titles' have been upgraded to full library records.
http://www.rlg.org/estc.html
Your university may well be subscribed to this already.
If is isn't, tell them about it. Cambridge University link is:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/InformationServices/SubjectFiles/web_descs/estc.html

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2) Early English Books Online (EEBO)
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This aims to put all the books in the English Short Title catalogue
online as page images. Although most of them aren't done yet, they have
already completed thousands of titles including works by Malory, Bacon,
More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo etc, using the 10,000 feet of
microfilm which make up the The Early English Books library.
English Short Title Catalogue links to these images.
http://wwwlib.umi.com/eebo/

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4) Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
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"All" Greek texts which now goes up to about AD 1453
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/
The online version now works very well, especially if you tick "Link
to Perseus" - then you can click on any work and get a lexicon definition.

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5) Patrologia Latina
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"All" the Latin church documents on CD, at a very high price
http://pld.chadwyck.co.uk/

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6) Free Church History Documents on the Web
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MAINLY CATHOLIC & THE FATHERS:
The Papal historical documents which were on listserv.american.edu
seem to have disappeared, but similar sites are found at:
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7273/encycx5.htm
- both cover popes from 1216 to John Paul II
The early Church Councils were also on were on listserv.american.edu,
but they can be found at http://www.piar.hu/councils/~index.htm
- covers Nicea to Vatican II
These are also found, with the Fathers and a huge number of other
church history sources at:
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
New Advent: http://newadvent.org/fathers/index.html
MAINLY PROTESTANT & REFORMATION:
For Protestant and Reformation texts, Hanover is still the best site,
but it has moved, to http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html
Also go to Project Wittenberg:
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
The complete works of Luther are only available (as far as I know) on CD
from Logos: http://www.logos.com/products/product.asp?item=1826
We are still waiting for modern Erasmus editions, but all the
old editions printed in England are available at EEBO (see 3 above).
MAINLY ORTHODOX:
Everything Orthodox (and more) is at St. Pachomius Library:
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/globalindex.html
GENERAL COLLECTIONS:
Virtually all public domain Christian literature can be found at:
CCEL: http://www.ccel.org/ (though this has been down recently).
Their CD is very reasonable, and is a quick way to look up documents.
The Ecole Initiative has moved to http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
Oxford Text Archive: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Church History documents

A vast number of church history primary documents are available on the Web.
There are many more sources than those listed here, but these are the most complete.
1) Early Church Fathers
2) Catholic Documents
3) Orthodox Documents
4) Reformation Texts
5) Huge general collections of historical texts
6) Greek and Latin original texts
7) What is missing?


1) Early Church Fathers
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You can buy the standard 38 vols from Eerdmans or Hendrickson, or buy the CD from Logos or SAGES, or get the same texts free from:
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ - includes searching, footnotes, and compressed versions so you can download them to your own computer.


2) Catholic Documents
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New Advent - http://newadvent.org/fathers/index.html
- and an amazing encyclopaedia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
- even includes full Summa Theologica - http://newadvent.org/summa/
- for Contra Gentiles go to - http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc.htm
Councils before 1450 - http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/documentscou.html
Later Councils:
Trent - http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent.htm
Vatican II - http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v1.html
Documents for various Orders & Organisations - http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/
Encyclicals and Other Papal Documents - http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/church/papal/papal.html


3) Orthodox Documents
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St. Pachomius Library - http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/globalindex.html


4) Reformation Texts
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Hanover texts - http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html
- includes Baxter, Bunyan, Calvin, Elizabethan Homilies, Fox, Hooker, Law, Luther, Melanchthon, Wesley and others.
Project Wittenberg for Luther related texts - http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html


5) Huge general collections of historical texts
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Ecole (texts up to 1500): http://cedar.evansville.edu/~ecoleweb/
Christian Classics Ethereal Library: http://www.ccel.org/
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook (covers a very wide historical period) - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
Theology Library - http://www.mcgill.pvt.k12.al.us/jerryd/cm/thltxt.htm
Project Gutenberg - almost everything, but not easy to use - http://promo.net/pg/


6) Greek and Latin original texts:
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For the Greek and Latin texts you usually still have to pay.
- Greek texts up to about 600 CE are on the TLG CD - http://www.tlg.uci.edu/
- Latin texts are on the Patrologia Latina (VERY expensive) - http://pld.chadwyck.co.uk/
But there are some good Web collections, especially:
Bibliotheca Augustana (a VERYwide range of texts) - http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.htm
Perseus - a growing set of texts, with translations, but mainly early - http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/Texts.html


7) What is missing?
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Lots of things. And it is usually what you want to find.
For example, there doesn't seem to be any copy of Augustine's "Retractions" (a most interesting work), and almost nothing of Erasmus except his "Praise of Folly".
If you find a good source, please tell me.