CONTACT:
Stephen
Abbott,
Publisher, Abbott ePublishing, 603-341-0372;
publisher@abbottepublishing.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Abbott
ePublishing Tyndale21 Version of
the Gospels Published
Abbott
ePublishing
announces
the publication of the Abbott
ePublishing Tyndale21 Version of the New Testament Gospels, an updated,
modern
English version of the first printed English Gospels translated by
William
Tyndale in 1526.
Also
known as
the Abbott ePublishing Version, this is the first stage of a proposed
full revision of Tyndale's influential
New Testament.
The
electronic
book
is being sold for $2.99 on the company’s
website, www.abbottepub.com/tyndale21gospels.html
in Adobe Portable Document format (.pdf.) The eBook contains the New
Testament
Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
General
editor
and
Abbott ePublishing principal Stephen
Abbott says the new version is not a “translation,” but rather an
update of the
16th Century text that Tyndale produced.
“It
was
a
remarkable and important text in the history of
translations,” said Abbott. “It was the first New Testament printed in
English,
it laid the foundations and gave much of the familiar wording to the
King James
Version of 1611, and was the first English Bible to be translated
directly from
the Greek language.”
All
the
English
Bibles up until that time had been translations
from the Latin Vulgate, but Tyndale's New Testament was taken from the
compilation of all Greek manuscripts known at that time.
The
scholars
who
created the King James Version of the Bible
in 1611 relied heavily on Tyndale's translation. Some estimate that
nearly 83
percent of the King James Version New Testament contains Tyndale’s
wording.
“His
renderings
are
unique and sometimes more starkly
beautiful than many, many that have come after, as will be readily seen
in this
translation,” said Abbott ePublishing
Tyndale’s
early
16th Century language is updated
in this edition for 21st Century ears.
“The
thought,
‘What
if William Tyndale’s 1526 version was
the only one Christians had used for the last 400 years, and it now
needed to
be updated into more modern English?’ was constantly considered,” said
Abbott.
“It was, in fact, the theoretical basis for this revision. Words and
phrases
that have clearly changed meaning were updated to 21st
Century English.
The
Abbott
ePublishing
Tyndale21 Version is not a
word-for-word update of Tyndale’s translation, and discretion was used
when
called for, he said.
“This
is
neither
a ‘thought-for-thought’ nor ‘word-for-word’
rendering of the Gospels from ancient Greek texts,” he said. “It is
instead an
adaptation of an earlier English translation. Phrases are not
deliberately put
into over-casual speech. The majesty, dignity and grace of the English
of
Tyndale’s era remain.”
Sample
Scriptures
in
the Abbott ePublishing Tyndale21
Version:
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and
it will be opened to you. For whoever asks receives; and he who seeks
finds;
and to him who knocks it will be opened. Is there any
man among you who, if his son asks him for
bread, would offer
him a stone? Or if he asks for a
fish, he gives him a snake?” Matt. 7:7-10
“And he looked around at them angrily, grieved at the
blindness of their
hearts. And he said to the man: Hold out your hand. And he did. And his
hand
was restored just as healthy as the other one.” Mark 3:5
“They worship me in vain, teaching doctrines that are nothing
but the
precepts of men. Because you lay aside the commands of God and instead
observe
the traditions of men - like baptizing pitchers and cups, and many
other kinds
of things you do.” Mark 7:7-8
“Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed
down, and
shaken together and running over, will men put into your lap. For the
same
measurement with which you are measuring, that same will be used to
measure
you.” Luke 6:38
“And he said to them, Give, then, to Caesar the things which
belong to
Caesar, and to God the things that which pertain to God.” Luke 20:25
“For God so loved the world, that he has given his only Son,
that none
who believes in him would die, but would have eternal life.” John 3:16
Abbott ePublishing was launched in 2009 as a New
England-based publisher of original, affordable electronic books. They
can be
found online at abbottepub.com.
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