“560. To whom am I indebted for my English Bible?”
You are indebted to the Church who steadfastly preserved the bible for 1500 years.
The translators of the Authorized edition themselves acknowledge the fact that Wycliffe didn’t produce the first english bible, like Luther didn’t produce the first german bible. And the first book ever printed was, guess what, the Bible at the command and by the expense of the Church.
You won’t find the english versions predating the reformation because when Henry VIII ordered the looting and burning of the churches and monasteries they were destroyed.
“You won’t find the english versions predating the reformation because when Henry VIII ordered the looting and burning of the churches and monasteries they were destroyed.”
You won’t find them because the people who produced them were killed by the Roman Church for it. Producing and distributing an English (or any other vernacular) Scripture was tantamount to high witchcraft, heresy and apostacy and worthy of a hideous death at the stake.