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Abner Kneeland · 1823 · Scripture
The Kneeland New Testament is a distinct early American translation of the New Testament, associated with the radical religious currents of its time and reflecting the period in which Bible translation in…
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Living Oracles Living Oracles / Sacred Writings
Alexander Campbell, compiling and revising George Campbell, James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge · 1826 · Scripture
A composite revision rather than a wholly fresh translation, this work confines its scope to the New Testament, rendered from the Greek but mediated through earlier English predecessors. Its base text draws…
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Alexander Greaves · 1828 · Scripture
The Greaves New Testament is an independent nineteenth-century English rendering of the New Testament, one of the many efforts that made up the expanding movement of translation work following the King James…
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New Testament Palfrey's Griesbach New Testament
John Gorham Palfrey · 1828 · Scripture
An early American attempt to bring the familiar English of the King James Version into alignment with a modern critical Greek text, Palfrey's Griesbach New Testament covers the New Testament and works…
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Rodulphus Dickinson · 1833 · Scripture
The Dickinson New Testament is a distinct nineteenth-century American attempt at rendering the New Testament into a more literary English. Covering the New Testament in full, it was translated from Greek and…
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Noah Webster · 1833 · Scripture
The Webster Bible is an early modernization of the complete Bible in King James English, prepared by Noah Webster, America's leading lexicographer and the compiler of its first major dictionary. Covering the…
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Granville Penn · 1836 · Scripture
A scholarly nineteenth-century rendering of the New Testament, translated from Greek and based on the Greek New Testament, this work reflects the early modern development of textual criticism, when comparison of manuscripts…
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Samuel Sharpe · 1840 · Scripture
The Samuel Sharpe Bible was a long-running independent translation project that eventually produced a complete Bible, covering the whole of Scripture. Working directly from the original languages, it takes the Hebrew Old…
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John Tricker Conquest · 1841 · Scripture
The Conquest Bible is a large-scale revision of the wording of the King James Version, covering the complete Bible. It belongs to the tradition of independent attempts to modernize the Authorized Version…
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Septuagint Brenton's English Septuagint
Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton · 1844 · Scripture
For generations this was the principal complete English translation of the Septuagint, and it is still widely reprinted. Its scope is the Septuagint, or Greek Old Testament — the ancient Greek version…
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Peshitta Etheridge Peshitta New Testament
John Wesley Etheridge · 1849 · Scripture
One of the earliest complete English translations of the Syriac Peshitta New Testament, this work renders the whole of the New Testament from Syriac, taking the Peshitta both as its base text…
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New Testament Commonly Received Version of the New Testament
Spencer H. Cone and William H. Wyckoff · 1850 · Scripture
The Commonly Received Version of the New Testament was an early Baptist effort to revise the King James Version New Testament into American English. Its scope was limited to the New Testament,…
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James Murdock · 1851 · Scripture
A major nineteenth-century American English translation of the Syriac Peshitta New Testament, known by the name of its translator, Murdock. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, rendered from Syriac, with…
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Isaac Leeser · 1853 · Scripture
The Leeser Bible, published as The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, was the first complete Jewish English translation of the Tanakh to appear in the United States. Its scope is the…
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John Barrow, George Moberly, Henry Alford, William G. Humphry, Charles J. Ellicott and associates · 1857 · Scripture
Known as the Revision by Five Clergymen, this undertaking is a representative private clerical revision project that immediately preceded the official Revised Version. Its scope was limited to selected books of the…
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Leicester Ambrose Sawyer · 1858 · Scripture
The Sawyer New Testament is an independent American translation of the New Testament, undertaken with the aim of contemporary intelligibility and critical accuracy. It covers the New Testament alone, rendered from Greek…
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Charles Wellbeloved, John Scott Porter, George Vance Smith · 1859 · Scripture
The Wellbeloved–Smith–Porter Old Covenant, named for the three scholars associated with it, is a substantial independent rendering of the Old Testament produced within English Unitarian circles, a tradition that took a marked…
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Herman Heinfetter (Frederick Parker) · 1863 · Scripture
An early English translation deliberately founded on the Vatican manuscript rather than the Textus Receptus, the printed Greek text that had underpinned the Authorised Version and most English Bibles before it. Its…
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Robert Young · 1863 · Scripture
Young's Literal Translation is one of the best-known highly literal English renderings of the Bible, the work of the Scottish scholar Robert Young, better known to many readers as the compiler of…
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American Bible Union scholars · 1864 · Scripture
The American Bible Union New Testament stands as the largest organized American effort to revise and translate Scripture undertaken before the American Standard Version. In scope it embraced the whole of the…
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Benjamin Wilson · 1864 · Scripture
The Emphatic Diaglott is an interlinear Greek-English New Testament, prepared in the nineteenth century by Benjamin Wilson, that has been influential in restorationist circles. Classed as an interlinear translation, it covers the…
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Henry T. Anderson · 1865 · Scripture
The Anderson New Testament is an independent, Greek-based rendering of the New Testament associated with the American Restoration Movement, the reform tradition that arose in the United States with the aim of…
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John Nelson Darby · 1867 · Scripture
The Darby Bible is a literal rendering of the complete Scriptures associated with John Nelson Darby, a leading figure among the Plymouth Brethren, and it has been highly influential within that movement…
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Joseph Smith; scribal assistance · 1867 · Scripture
A distinctive large-scale revision of the King James Version produced within the Latter Day Saint movement, this work is generally known as the Inspired Version or the Holy Scriptures. In scope it…
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