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John Wycliffe reading his translation of the Bible to John of Gaunt. John's wife and child are also depicted, along with poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. c. 1859. John Wycliffe was ordained as a priest in 1351. [67] Between 1372 and 1374 he composed a postil (a Biblical summary and commentary).
Wycliffe was instrumental in the development of a translation of the Bible in English, thus making it accessible to English speakers with poor Latin, though whether he himself translated the Bible, in part or whole, or merely played a part in motivating its translation indirectly through his revival of Oxford biblical studies, is a matter of ...
Wycliffe Global Alliance is an alliance of organizations that have the objective of translating the Bible into every language. The organisation is named after John Wycliffe, who was responsible for the first complete English translation of the whole Bible into Middle English.
Wycliffe USA was founded in 1942 by William Cameron Townsend, and is named after John Wycliffe who was responsible for the first complete English translation of the whole Bible into Middle English. It led to the founding of many similar organisations around the world, with separate Wycliffe organizations in over 60 countries within the Wycliffe ...
In the 1930s and 1940s, George Yff and Rex Natewa, with the help of Wycliffe Bible Translator Carroll Whitener translated Matthew and John. These translations had many problems, including the fact that they used grammatical sentence structure based on English instead of on Zuñi.
John Purvey (c. 1354 – c. 1414) [1] was an English preacher, reformer, and sometime disciple of John Wycliffe. He is popularly associated with the "Later Version" Middle English translations of at least the New Testament of the Middle English Bible popularly associated with Wycliffe.
According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible. It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be ...
Traditionally, there was held to be some connection to John Wycliffe as inspiration or instigator or glossator or translator — hence it often called Wycliffe's Bible or Wycliffite Bibles. It is thought that a large portion of the Old Testament was translated by Nicholas Hereford .