J.B. Trapp, 17 December 1992
Tyndale’s New Testament edited by David Daniell.
Yale, 429 pp., £18.95, September 1989, 0 300 04419 4Show More Tyndale’s Old Testament, being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to II Chronicles of 1537 and Jonah edited by David Daniell.
Yale, 643 pp., £25, October 1992, 0 300 05211 1Show More Show More“... The woodcut below by Hans Holbein the Younger, made some time before 1526, shows clearly and succinctly what the Reformation – as far as its religious aspects can be disentangled from its political – was all about. Christ is offering to an eagerly approaching group of wide-eyed laymen of all degrees, particularly lowly degrees, the pure, clear light of the New Testament, beaming from a candle on a candle-stick round whose column cluster St Paul and St Peter, and whose base is supported by the symbols of the Evangelists ...”