Tyndale House (Cambridge)
biblical studies library in Cambridge, England
Tyndale House is an independent biblical studies library in Cambridge, England, with a Christian foundation. Founded in 1945, it aims to provide specialist resources in support of research into the Old and New Testaments, along with relevant historical backgrounds.
Description
Tyndale House is a residential centre for biblical scholarship. Many of its readers are doctoral students from the University of Cambridge, studying in the Faculty of Divinity or the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Tyndale House also houses students and scholars from around the world working at postgraduate level. Scholars who have spent time at Tyndale House include Craig Blomberg, D. A. Carson, Wayne Grudem, Leon Morris, J. I. Packer, John Piper, John Stott, and Donald Wiseman.
The Tyndale Fellowship, an academic society associated with Tyndale House, is an international fellowship of Christians engaged in biblical and theological research.
The Tyndale Bulletin is an annual journal of Tyndale House. TH ink magazine was first published in 2018 and 'offers thought-provoking articles about the language, history, and cultural context of the Bible'. At the moment TH ink is published twice yearly.
“Tyndale House (Cambridge)” enters the record as biblical studies library in Cambridge, England. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tyndale, House and Cambridge can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7860447. VIAF identifies the subject as 229264462. Authority coordinates are 52.199, 0.104. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945 and 2018.
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