Published in 1382, Wycliffe's translation is the first true English Bible. However, the first Anglo saxon (an early form of English) translations were made around A.D. 700.
While other preceding Old English authors translated parts - even large parts - of The Bible, none who translated the entire Bible are known. Wycliffe is credited with translating all the Bible from the Vulgate into what we have contemporarily come to call Middle English, which was a mixture of Old English (pre-1066) and French. By Wycliffe's time, French had had more than 3 centuries to incorporate itself into the existing Old English language.
Answer2: It was in the late fourteenth century that the first English-language translation was produced. The name Wycliffe is attached to that version based on the Latin Vulgate. Just how much John Wycliffe actually translated is unknown today. It is certain, however, that there was fierce opposition to the translating work. Wycliffe and his associates incurred the bitter hatred of the religious authorities.
He was the first to translate the Bible into English
John Wycliffe.
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The first English translation of The Bible was done by John Wycliffe around 1380 AD.
John Wycliffe completing translating the Bible into the English language in 1382. His works became known as the Wycliffe Bible, he did not personally translate all of the books of the Bible, specifically the Gospel accounts and possibly the entirety of the New Testament.
John Wycliffe was the theologian who was the first to translate the Bible into his native English. John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England.
wycliffe was a person who changed the bible from latin into English :)) hope this helps.
John Wycliffe was the theologian who was the first to translate The Bible into his native English. John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England.
John Wycliffe translated parts of the Bible into English.
John Wycliffe translated the bible into the English language. 16.06.2010
John Wycliffe was born c. 1324 . He translated the bible into the English Language, as Latin was the only available language at that time. He later died in 31 December 1824. 16.06.2010
The Bible was originally translated from the original Greek and from the Latin Vulgate to English by John Wycliffe. However, modern English differs greatly from Old English, and thus the first project to translate the Bible into English that best resembles modern English was commissioned by King James, and the result was the King James Version.