[mamelukesabre]

Interesting. All this time I thought the wycliff bible was the first english bible.

Wait a sec! I’m right. This article is full of BS! The tyndale bible was 1534, and the wycliff bible was 1385! I just looked it up in my old book of english literature printed in 1924.

These idiots don’t know a dam thing.

[wideawake]

The Wycliffe Bible was not a translation from the original tongues, but a variegated translation from one of the less dependable editions of the Latin Vulgate.

The Tyndale Bible was the first translation of the Bible into English using the Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture.

Moreover, the Wycliffe Bible circulated in a handful of partial manuscripts, while the Tyndale Bible in its Coverdale version was the first printed edition of the complete protocanonical Bible in English and was therefore the first English Bible commonly available.

These idiots don’t know a dam thing.

Or they may be using stricter, less casual definitions than yours.

[wideawake]

Oh, and to correct your inaccuracies (apparently derived from your use of a badly outdated historical text), the most common full recension of the Wycliffe Bible dates from 1388, the Tyndale Bible was completed in 1525 and first published in 1526 as a New Testament edition, the Tyndale/Coverdale edition of both Testaments dates to 1535.

And of course, there are English translations of individual books of the Bible dating back to the 800s.