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‘No Tyndale, No Shakespeare’: How the Bible Made Modern English

‘No Tyndale, No Shakespeare’: How the Bible Made Modern English
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The book that the famed British Library once called the most significant in the English language was nearly destroyed before it was even printed. That book was William Tyndale's 1526 English New Testament, whose 500th anniversary is being commemorated this year. Not only was the book banned and burn

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