England's First Legal Bible, Quietly Erased
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England's First Legal Bible, Quietly Erased

The first English Bible printed in England carried a fake author's name, a dead man's banned translation, and a license that doomed it almost the moment it appeared in 1536.

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Tudor England16th CenturyReformationReligious PoliticsCensorshipTranslationHenry VIIIThomas CranmerBiblical HistoryJohn Rogers

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