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Ostrog scholarly circle under Prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski · 1581 · Scripture
Printed in 1581 at Ostroh in Volhynia, under the patronage of Prince Konstantin Ostrogski and with the press work of Ivan Fedorov, the Ostrog Bible was the first complete printed Bible in…
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English College scholars; NT chiefly Gregory Martin, revised by William Allen and others · 1582 · Scripture
The Douay-Rheims Bible was the first complete English Catholic Bible and served as the principal Catholic counterpart to the Protestant English versions circulating in the same period. Produced by English Catholic exiles…
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William Morgan; building on William Salesbury's NT · 1588 · Scripture
The William Morgan Bible was the first complete Bible in the Welsh language, and it proved crucial to the standardization and preservation of Welsh. Published in 1588, it offered a complete Bible…
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Papal commission under Clement VIII, following Sixtine edition · 1592 · Scripture
The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is a standardized official Vulgate text that served the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. Produced in the wake of the Council of Trent's call for a dependable authoritative Latin…
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Cipriano de Valera revising Casiodoro de Reina · 1602 · Scripture
The Reina-Valera Revision established the enduring Reina-Valera family of Spanish Protestant translations, and stands as one of the foundational texts of Protestant Bible reading in the Spanish language. A complete Protestant Bible…
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Giovanni Diodati · 1607 · Scripture
The Diodati Bible was the first major Italian Protestant Bible translated directly from the original languages. A complete Protestant Bible, it was prepared as a fresh translation from Hebrew and Greek, with…
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King James Version King James Version / Authorized Version
Six companies of roughly 47 scholars · 1611 · Scripture
Commissioned in the reign of James I and first printed in 1611, the King James Version — also known as the Authorized Version — is widely regarded as the most influential English…
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Dutch Reformed translators commissioned by States General · 1637 · Scripture
The Statenvertaling, or "States Translation," is the major national Protestant Bible of the Dutch-speaking world, comparable in Dutch history to the King James Version in English. Comprising the complete Protestant Bible, it…
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Eliot Indian Bible Eliot Indian Bible / Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God
John Eliot with Indigenous linguistic assistance · 1663 · Scripture
The Eliot Indian Bible, or Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, was the first complete Bible printed in British North America and stands as a major textual monument in an Indigenous language. Prepared for…
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Daniel Mace · 1729 · Scripture
The Mace New Testament stands among the earliest English New Testaments to make substantial independent use of textual criticism after the King James Version. Associated with Daniel Mace and belonging to the…
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William Whiston · 1745 · Scripture
Whiston's Primitive New Testament represents an early attempt to recover what its compiler believed to be a more 'primitive' text of the New Testament. Its scope is the New Testament, working from…
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Richard Challoner · 1750 · Scripture
Undertaken by the English Catholic bishop Richard Challoner in the mid-eighteenth century, this revision transformed the very Latinate Douay-Rheims into the form familiar to generations of English-speaking Catholics. It covers the complete…
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John Wesley · 1755 · Scripture
An important early Methodist revision of the English New Testament, associated with John Wesley and the eighteenth-century evangelical revival out of which Methodism grew. Its scope is limited to the New Testament,…
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Anthony Purver · 1764 · Scripture
Often referred to simply as the Quaker Bible, the Purver Bible was the first complete English Bible translated by a member of the Society of Friends, and it stands among the notable…
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Edward Harwood · 1768 · Scripture
The Harwood New Testament is a distinctive attempt to render the New Testament in the polished literary English of the eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from…
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John Worsley · 1770 · Scripture
The Worsley New Testament is an independent English rendering of the New Testament dating from the late eighteenth century. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, and it draws on Greek…
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George Campbell · 1789 · Scripture
An influential scholarly translation of the four Gospels, issued together with extensive critical dissertations. It works directly from the Greek, taking the Greek Gospels as its base text, and is classed as…
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Gilbert Wakefield · 1791 · Scripture
The Wakefield New Testament is an independent critical translation associated with late-Enlightenment English biblical scholarship, a period in which individual scholars increasingly issued their own renderings from the Greek rather than working…
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Thomas Haweis · 1795 · Scripture
The Haweis New Testament stands among the distinctive evangelical English New Testaments of the eighteenth century, a period in which individual translators increasingly ventured beyond the received King James Version to render…
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James MacKnight · 1795 · Scripture
An influential translation of and commentary on the apostolic epistles, the work of the Scottish minister and biblical scholar James MacKnight. Its scope is the New Testament Epistles, translated from Greek and…
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William Newcome · 1796 · Scripture
A major scholarly English New Testament produced at the turn of the nineteenth century, this work covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament. It…
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Nathaniel Scarlett · 1798 · Scripture
The Scarlett New Testament is a distinct, independent English rendering of the New Testament associated with early English Universalism. Its scope is confined to the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and…
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Thomas Belsham and Unitarian editors, revising William Newcome · 1808 · Scripture
The Improved Version of the New Testament is an important early nineteenth-century doctrinal and text-critical revision of an English New Testament, limited in scope to the New Testament alone. Working from both…
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Charles Thomson · 1808 · Scripture
The Thomson Bible holds the distinction of being the first English translation of the Septuagint to appear as part of a complete Bible, and it stands as one of the earliest major…
