Editing Myles Coverdale (section)

==Second exile, 1540–1547==
In April 1540 there was a second edition of the [[Great Bible]], this time with a prologue by the Archbishop of Canterbury, [[Thomas Cranmer]]. For this reason, the Great Bible is sometimes known as Cranmer’s Bible although he had no part in its translation. According to Kenyon,<ref name="KenyonGrtBible">{{cite web|last1=Kenyon|first1=Sir Frederic G.|title=The Great Bible (1539–1541) – from Dictionary of the Bible|url=http://www.bible-researcher.com/greatbible1.html|publisher=Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1909.|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref> there were seven editions in total, up until the end of 1541, with the later versions including some revisions.

Before leaving England, Coverdale married Elizabeth Macheson (d. 1565), a Scotswoman of noble family who had come to England with her sister and brother-in-law as religious exiles from Scotland.<ref name="ONDB"/> They went first to [[Strasbourg]], where they remained for about three years. He translated books from Latin and German and wrote an important defence of Barnes. This is regarded as his most significant reforming statement apart from his Bible prefaces. He received the degree of DTh from [[Tübingen]] and visited Denmark, where he wrote reforming tracts. In Strasbourg he befriended [[Konrad Hubert|Conrad Hubert]], [[Martin Bucer]]'s secretary and a preacher at the church of St Thomas. Hubert was a native of Bergzabern (now [[Bad Bergzabern]]) in the duchy of [[Palatine Zweibrücken]]. In September 1543, on the recommendation of Hubert, Coverdale became assistant minister in Bergzabern as well as schoolmaster in the town's [[Latin school|grammar school]]. During this period, he opposed [[Martin Luther]]'s attack on the Reformed view of the Lord's Supper. He also began to learn Hebrew, becoming competent in the language, as had been Tyndale.<ref name="ONDB"/>