Who hand wrote the first translation of the Bible from Latin to English?

Who hand wrote the first translation of the Bible from Latin to English?

• A. John Wycliffe
• B. William Tyndale
• C. Martin Luther
• D. Johannes Gutenberg

Answer: (A)

John Wycliffe is the one who produced the first hand-written English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate in the 1380s, long before the printing press. His work made Scripture available in English directly from Latin, which is why it’s considered the earliest English Bible translation done by hand. Later efforts shifted to translations from the original languages and/or used printing to reach more readers. William Tyndale wrote in the 1520s the first English Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek, and he relied on the new printing press to spread it. Martin Luther translated the Bible into German from the original languages, not Latin to English. Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press, enabling widespread copies, but he did not translate the Bible himself. So the earliest hand-written Latin-to-English translation is by John Wycliffe.

John Wycliffe is the one who produced the first hand-written English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate in the 1380s, long before the printing press. His work made Scripture available in English directly from Latin, which is why it’s considered the earliest English Bible translation done by hand. Later efforts shifted to translations from the original languages and/or used printing to reach more readers. William Tyndale wrote in the 1520s the first English Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek, and he relied on the new printing press to spread it. Martin Luther translated the Bible into German from the original languages, not Latin to English. Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press, enabling widespread copies, but he did not translate the Bible himself. So the earliest hand-written Latin-to-English translation is by John Wycliffe.