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I think your idea of using Bible translations from different eras to do a gradually shifting text could work really well.

I've been working on this the last few days; I thought if I'm ever going to do it, it's going to have to be now, when I have time on my hands. It's turning out to be considerably more effort than I thought! But I think the end result, which will involve both sound, orthography and (if I can be bothered) letter shape evolution, will be really cool. (Though no doubt full of mistakes, being produced by a rank amateur such as myself.)

Though pre Tyndale English Bibles tend to be patchy, I think; IIRC there is fairly complete coverage of the Gospels but not of most of Tanach.

I'm not even sure about the Gospels. I've a nasty suspicion I'm going to have to fill in the gap between Ælfric (ca. 990) and Wycliffe myself, trying to work back from both ends and what my books and the Net of a Million Lies tell me about the state of Middle English to reconstruct what something halfway in between would have looked like.