George Joye was born at Salpho Bury, Renhold, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, around 1495.
12 Facts About George Joye
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George Joye studied at Christ's College, Cambridge where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts.
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George Joye waited for several days in Wolsey's antechamber to be received by the Cardinal, and witnessed the interrogation of Bilney and Arthur, which made him realize that it was safer for him to flee to the Continent.
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George Joye's first, now lost publication was a Primer, the first Protestant devotional book ever published in English.
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George Joye used Martin Bucer's recent Latin translation of the Hebrew text, which was published under the pseudonym Aretius Felinus.
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In 1531 George Joye published a defence countering the charges of heresy put against him by Ashwell in 1527.
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Butterworth and Chester suggest that George Joye published the translations of the Book of Proverbs and of Ecclesiastes in 1533 in Antwerp, of which only later London reprints have survived.
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In 1534 George Joye undertook the proofreading of Tyndale's New Testament edition that had been reprinted three times without any English-speaking corrector by the Flemish printing firm of the family Van Ruremund.
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George Joye believed, as he later explained, that the original term in the Bible in those places did not refer to the bodily resurrection but to the intermediate state of the soul.
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Tyndale accused George Joye of promoting the heresy of the denial of the bodily resurrection and causing divisions among Protestants.
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Around the same time when Coverdale sought refuge again on the Continent, George Joye, too, fled to Antwerp.
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In 1549, George Joye debated the question of the preferred punishment of adulterers with John Foxe.