HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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Reformer of the church who called for the Bible to be translated from Latin into the vernacular, or language of ordinary people?
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Shakespeare
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Gutenberg
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Erasmus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536) was a religious reformer. In the early 16th century it was still forbidden to translate the Bible into English, the vernacular language everyone could understand, and doing so and publishing it attracted the death penalty.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Tyndale (1494?-1536), who first translated the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew text, is one such forgotten pioneer.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dutch Catholic scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) produced a Latin translation of the New Testament by going back to and closely studying Greek manuscripts.
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