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Edgar J. Goodspeed (NT); J. M. Powis Smith and colleagues (OT) · 1923 · Scripture
Associated with the American scholar Edgar J. Goodspeed, who worked at the University of Chicago and published his rendering of the New Testament in 1923, this was one of the first major…
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William G. Ballantine / related Riverside project attribution varies by edition · 1923 · Scripture
The Riverside New Testament belongs to the early twentieth-century movement toward contemporary American Bible prose, a period in which a number of translators sought to render the scriptures in the idiom of…
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Helen Barrett Montgomery · 1924 · Scripture
The Montgomery Centenary Translation, the work of the Baptist writer and scholar Helen Barrett Montgomery, was the first New Testament translation by a woman scholar to receive broad denominational publication in the…
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A. E. Knoch and Concordant Publishing Concern · 1926 · Scripture
The Concordant Literal New Testament is distinguished by a translation method that seeks to render each Greek term with a tightly controlled English equivalent, so that a single Greek word is consistently…
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Charles Cutler Torrey · 1933 · Scripture
A scholarly rendering of the Four Gospels shaped by Torrey's strong theories about Semitic originals, this version belongs to the tradition of fresh translations made directly by an individual scholar rather than…
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Catholic scholars · 1935 · Scripture
The Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures represents an important British Catholic move toward direct translation from the Greek rather than exclusive dependence on the Latin Vulgate, which had long served as…
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Charles B. Williams · 1937 · Scripture
The Williams New Testament is a popular scholarly rendering of the New Testament, noted for bringing verbal force explicitly into English. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from Greek…
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Francis Aloysius Spencer, O.P.; later editorial completion · 1937 · Scripture
The Spencer New Testament is a major American Catholic translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the Greek in the period before the Second Vatican Council. Its scope is limited to…
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S. H. Hooke and committee · 1941 · Scripture
A pioneering controlled-vocabulary Bible designed for readers with limited English, the Bible in Basic English covers the complete Bible, translated from Hebrew and Greek and working directly from the original-language texts. It…
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Catholic Biblical Association scholars · 1941 · Scripture
The principal American Catholic translation project of the twentieth century, the Confraternity Bible began as a revision of the Douay-Rheims/Challoner tradition, which served as both its predecessor and its base translation, and…
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Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches committee · 1946 · Scripture
One of the central ancestor texts of modern English Bible translation, the Revised Standard Version covers the complete Bible, rendered from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. It is best classified not as a…
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George Swann · 1947 · Scripture
The Swann New Testament is a distinct mid-century English rendering of the New Testament, produced during a period in which numerous independent translators issued versions in contemporary idiom. Its scope is limited…
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T. F. Letchworth · 1948 · Scripture
The Letchworth New Testament is a distinct, independent English rendering of the New Testament produced in the postwar period. Its scope is limited to the New Testament alone, translated from Greek and…
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Anonymous New World Bible Translation Committee · 1950 · Scripture
A distinct modern English Bible, the New World Translation is foundational to Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, produced under the auspices of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and issued in stages during…
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Angelo B. Traina · 1950 · Scripture
An early major English Bible of the Sacred Name movement, this edition comprises the complete Bible and is best classified as a revision or adaptation rather than a fresh translation. Its base…
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Charles Kingsley Williams · 1952 · Scripture
A distinct postwar New Testament that seeks contemporary clarity, this version belongs to the wave of English renderings produced in the middle decades of the twentieth century, when translators increasingly sought to…
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E. V. Rieu · 1952 · Scripture
An influential literary rendering of the four Gospels, prepared by E. V. Rieu, the founding editor of the Penguin Classics series, whose translations of Greek epic had already brought classical texts to…
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James A. Kleist, S.J., and Joseph L. Lilly, C.M. · 1954 · Scripture
The Kleist-Lilly New Testament is a prominent American Catholic rendering of the New Testament, produced in the mid-twentieth century during the pre-Vatican II period and named for its translators, James A. Kleist…
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Hugh J. Schonfield · 1955 · Scripture
The Authentic New Testament, prepared by Hugh J. Schonfield, is an independent translation notable for reading the New Testament within a strongly Jewish historical framework. Its scope is limited to the New…
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Ronald Knox · 1955 · Scripture
The Knox Bible is a major one-man Catholic translation of Scripture, the work of the English priest and writer Ronald Knox, undertaken at the request of the Catholic hierarchy of England and…
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Kenneth S. Wuest · 1956 · Scripture
The Wuest Expanded Translation is a highly expanded rendering of the New Testament, prepared by the Greek scholar Kenneth S. Wuest, long associated with Moody Bible Institute, and issued in the middle…
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George M. Lamsa · 1957 · Scripture
The Lamsa Bible is the most prominent complete modern English Bible translated from the Syriac Peshitta rather than from the standard Hebrew and Greek base texts. Produced by George M. Lamsa, a…
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J. B. Phillips · 1958 · Scripture
A highly influential modern English rendering of the New Testament, the work of the Anglican clergyman J. B. Phillips, who began translating during the Second World War with the aim of making…
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Berkeley Version Berkeley Version / Modern Language Bible
Gerrit Verkuyl (NT) and later team for OT · 1959 · Scripture
A twentieth-century English rendering aimed at conservative evangelical readers, the Berkeley Version — later circulated under the title Modern Language Bible — sought to present the whole of Scripture in contemporary idiom…
