Tyndale House is a Christian publisher in Carol Stream,

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History

Tyndale was founded in 1962 by

Kenneth N. Taylor Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor (May 8, 1917 – June 10, 2005) was an American publisher and author, better known as the creator of ''The Living Bible'' and the founder of Tyndale House, a Christian publishing company, and Living Bibles Internat ...

in order to publish his paraphrase of the Epistles, which he had composed while commuting to work at

Moody Press Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a private evangelical Christian Bible college founded in the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, US by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. Historically, MBI has maintained positions that have i ...

in Chicago.Ken Walker

"Living Bible Creator Dies But Ken Taylor's legacy is even larger", 7/13/2005, Christianity Today. The book appeared under the title ''Living Letters'', and received a television endorsement from

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. This ensured the book's great success, and in 1971 Tyndale published Taylor's complete ''

Living Bible The Living Bible (TLB or LB) is a personal paraphrase, not a translation, of the Bible in English by Kenneth N. Taylor and first published in 1971. Taylor used the American Standard Version of 1901 as his base text. Origin In a 1979 interview ...

''. Taylor named the company after

William Tyndale William Tyndale (; sometimes spelled ''Tynsdale'', ''Tindall'', ''Tindill'', ''Tyndall''; – ) was an English biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execu ...

, whose English translation of the

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was first printed in 1526. After Kenneth Taylor retired, his son, Mark D. Taylor, became the CEO. In 2021, Scott Mathews became the newest CEO. During the first nine years of Tyndale's history,

continued paraphrasing the text of the Bible. Living Letters was followed by ''Living Prophecies'' (1965) and ''The Living New Testament'' (1967). Finally, ''The Living Bible'' was launched in 1971. According to

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, it was the bestselling book in the United States in the years 1972–74. ''The Living Bible'' was published in many different editions and binding styles, including a popular youth edition called ''The Way'' and a study edition called ''The Life Application Study Bible''. In 2007, ''Quiet Strength'' by

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reached No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover, non-fiction list. It spent more than 30 weeks on either the primary or extended list, and has sold well more than one million copies. It is one of the best-selling sports-related titles in history. Subsequent books by Dungy, including ''Uncommon'' (2009), ''The Mentor Leader'' (2010), and ''The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge'' (2011), have all reached the New York Times best sellers list. Tyndale's first non-fiction book to reach No. 1 on the New York Times hardcover, non-fiction list was ''Let's Roll'', by

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. Beamer (born April 10, 1969, in Albany, New York) is the widow of Todd Beamer, a victim of the United Flight 93 crash as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. In 1996 Tyndale House released a new English translation of the Bible under the title

New Living Translation The New Living Translation (NLT) is an Bible translations into English, English translation of the Bible. The origin of the NLT came from a project aiming to revise ''The Living Bible'' (TLB). This effort eventually led to the creation of the ...

(NLT). While its predecessor, ''The Living Bible'', was a paraphrase, the NLT is a translation that was created by a team of 90 Hebrew and Greek scholars. The NLT copyright belongs to Tyndale House Foundation, which means that all a share of the profits from the sales of the Bible go towards the Foundation's charitable grants. A major revision of the NLT, aimed at making the translation more precise, was finished in 2004. A third revision in 2007 made minor alterations that had been suggested by the Translation Committee. Multiple other revisions followed, and the 2015 revision today incorporates edits from the Catholic edition created around the same time. Tyndale also developed a British branch, which was named ''Coverdale House Publishers''. Coverdale co-published a British edition of ''The Living New Testament'' with

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in 1974 and merged with another publisher,

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, in 1977. The British company eventually became Kingsway Publications Ltd, which was sold to Kingsway Trust in 1979, and joined Cook Communications Ministries in 1993. Kingsway Books was one of the most prominent Christian paperback producers in the UK, until it ceased trading in 2013. In 2016, Tyndale combined its two nonfiction imprints into one larger imprint, Tyndale Momentum. In 2021, Tyndale acquired Hendrickson Publishers along with Rose Publishing.

Bibliography

*Taylor, Kenneth, ''My Life: A Guided Tour: The Autobiography of Kenneth N. Taylor'', Wheaton: Tyndale, 1991.

External links

Tyndale House Publishers

References

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