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George R. Noyes · 1869 · Scripture
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…
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Joseph Bryant Rotherham · 1872 · Scripture
The Emphasized Bible, the work of the British scholar Joseph Bryant Rotherham, is a distinctive formal translation of the complete Bible that employs typography — a system of signs and accents printed…
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Samuel Davidson · 1875 · Scripture
The Samuel Davidson New Testament stands as a representative radical-critical English New Testament of the late nineteenth century, a period in which advances in the study of Greek manuscripts were reshaping English-language…
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Julia Evelina Smith · 1876 · Scripture
The Julia E. Smith Parker Bible holds the distinction of being the first complete English Bible translated by a woman working independently from the original languages. Covering the whole of scripture, it…
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British revision companies with American advisers · 1881 · Scripture
The English Revised Version stands as the first officially authorized large-scale revision of the King James Version, and it marked a turning point toward the modern English Bibles built upon critical texts.…
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J. W. Hanson · 1884 · Scripture
Hanson's New Covenant is a distinct late nineteenth-century American rendering of the New Testament associated with Universalism, the tradition that held to the ultimate reconciliation of all people to God and which…
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Leicester Ambrose Sawyer · 1891 · Scripture
A late revision of Leonard Sawyer's independent New Testament, this version covers the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and taking the Greek New Testament as its base text. Its approach may…
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Robert D. Weekes · 1897 · Scripture
The Weekes New Testament is a distinct English rendering of the late nineteenth century, belonging to the wave of independent translations that followed the Revised Version. In the decades after that revision,…
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Francis Aloysius Spencer, O.P. · 1898 · Scripture
The Spencer Four Gospels represents an early stage of a major American Catholic New Testament rendered directly from the Greek. Its scope is limited to the Four Gospels, with a complete New…
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American members of the Anglo-American Revised Version committees · 1901 · Scripture
The American Standard Version, published in 1901, is the foundational American revision of the Revised Version, the British undertaking that had issued its New Testament in 1881 and its Old Testament in…
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William G. Ballentine · 1901 · Scripture
An early twentieth-century effort to render the New Testament in the contemporary American English of its day, the Ballentine Modern American Bible belongs to a wave of translations that followed the Revised…
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William B. Godbey · 1902 · Scripture
The Godbey New Testament is a distinct Greek-based rendering of the New Testament that circulated in early American holiness circles. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, and it was made…
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Anonymous committee of British Christians · 1902 · Scripture
Produced at the turn of the twentieth century, the Twentieth Century New Testament was one of the first committee translations deliberately rendered in contemporary rather than traditional biblical English. Its scope is…
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Ferrar Fenton · 1903 · Scripture
The Ferrar Fenton Bible is a major one-man translation project that deliberately departs from the style inherited by earlier English Bibles. Covering the complete Bible, it works directly from Hebrew and Greek,…
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Richard Francis Weymouth; edited after his death by Ernest Hampden-Cook · 1903 · Scripture
An influential "modern speech" rendering of the New Testament, the Weymouth New Testament is notable for its emphasis on natural contemporary English. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from…
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A. S. Worrell · 1904 · Scripture
The Worrell New Testament is a distinct conservative American translation of the New Testament, produced in the early twentieth century and rendered directly from the Greek, with the Greek New Testament serving…
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Various scholars under Samuel Lloyd editorial work · 1905 · Scripture
The Lloyd Corrected New Testament stands as a representative early twentieth-century effort to correct familiar English versions rather than replace them outright. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, and it…
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Baptist scholars · 1912 · Scripture
The American Baptist Improved Bible and New Testament continued nineteenth-century Baptist efforts to revise the English Scriptures directly from the Greek. Conceived as both a New Testament and a full Bible revision,…
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James Moffatt · 1913 · Scripture
The Moffatt Bible, the work of the Scottish biblical scholar James Moffatt, is a highly influential modern-speech translation that broke strongly with the diction of the King James Version. Produced in the…
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E. E. Cunnington · 1914 · Scripture
A careful English rendering of the New Testament produced in the early twentieth century, the Cunnington New Covenant is notable for its emphasis on closely representing the Greek. Its scope is the…
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Ivan Panin · 1914 · Scripture
A distinctive New Testament in which both the underlying text and the translation were shaped by Ivan Panin's theory of numerical patterns in Scripture. Panin, a Russian-born writer who settled in North…
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1915 · Scripture
The Trench Epistles GWC is a rare early twentieth-century English rendering of the epistles, preserved as a distinct work within modern translation corpora. Its scope is limited to the New Testament epistles…
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1916 · Scripture
St. Paul from the Trenches is an English rendering of Pauline material produced in the era of the First World War, and it is historically notable chiefly for that context as well…
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Jewish Publication Society committee · 1917 · Scripture
The Jewish Publication Society's Holy Scriptures was the first major committee-produced Jewish English Tanakh in the United States, issued in 1917. Its scope is the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, and it draws…
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