What is the name of the first authorized Bible in the English language?
The Great Bible.
Under what King of England was it authorized?
King Henry VIII.
What was the date of its publication?
1539
Who prepared this Bible?
Miles Coverdale
Who's translation was used as the basis of this Bible?
For the New Testament and much of the Old Testament it was William Tyndale's translation.
Who's work did Tyndale use as the basis for his English translation?
The Latin New Testament of Desiderius Erasmus.
Erasmus had the Greek on the left side of the page and the Latin on the right. That was those who were both Greek and Latin scholars could compare these translations as they read the Bible.
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