John Rogers—Sealed with Blood: The Story of the First Protestant Martyr of Mary Tudor’s Reign (Biblia.com)

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The life of John Rogers has been largely overlooked in recent Reformation scholarship, but, as Tim Shenton shows in this fresh biography, Rogers is rightfully placed alongside such pivotal figures as William Tyndale and Thomas Cranmer. Rogers excelled as a scholar, and his publication of what is called Matthew’s Bible was a critical step toward making the English people a “people of the book.” ...

The entire volume was printed in Antwerp apparently at the press of Matthew Crom, the latter part of July 1537, which means Rogers was only engaged on the project for a little more than two years. He was never keen to adopt Coverdale’s version without making many and considerable alterations, omissions and additions in the portions of the Matthew’s Bible attributed to him. He supplied his own translation for the short prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha, which Coverdale had omitted. For Job and Isaiah

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