Fire in the Bones

Title: Fire in the Bones: William Tyndale - Martyr, Father of the English Bible

Author: S. Michael Wilcox

Pages: 255

Genre: Religion

Grade: B

Synopsis: William Tyndale was a genius translator and familiar with numerous languages including Hebrew, Greek & Latin. During his life in the early 1500s, the printing press was a new invention and most people were illiterate.  The bible only existed in Latin, Hebrew and Greek and the Catholic church fought hard against reformers such as Martin Luther and others who were trying to translate the bible into the more common tongues of English, German, French, etc. Many of these condemned heretics were burned at the stake and hunted throughout both England and the European continent. Wilcox makes the comparison between Joseph Smith and William Tyndale and how both were guided by the Lord in their translation work.

My Review: I enjoyed the story, but it was loaded with speculation and conjecture and in my opinion was stretched out longer than necessary.  This book would have made the perfect novella or magazine article series, but was more of a stretch in book length.