Noyes New Testament

A notable American scholarly rendering of the New Testament, the work of a Harvard professor who was also a Unitarian minister. Covering the whole of the New Testament, it was translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament text, and it belongs to the nineteenth-century movement in Britain and America toward independent English versions prepared directly from the original languages rather than by correcting the King James Bible. Its guiding philosophy is critical and readable, and it is properly categorized as a fresh translation rather than a revision. The version forms part of Noyes's broader body of biblical translation work, which extended to other portions of scripture, and it stands within the liberal New England scholarly tradition of its day, where such renderings were valued chiefly as study aids alongside, rather than as replacements for, the established English text.