George Joye

George Joye
Bornc. 1495
Bedfordshire, England
Died1553
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Known forBible Translation

George Joye (also Joy and Jaye) (c. 1495 – 1553) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first printed translation of several books of the Old Testament into English (1530–1534), as well as the first English Primer (1529).

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