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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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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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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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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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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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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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Watchman Nee · 1928–1929 · Treatise
The Spiritual Man emerged from Watchman Nee's intensive Bible study and spiritual struggles as a young Chinese Christian leader in the 1920s. Writing in his mid-twenties while establishing the indigenous Christian movement…
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Watchman Nee · 1933 · Book
Watchman Nee wrote this penetrating analysis in 1933 to address what he saw as widespread confusion among Chinese Christians about supernatural experiences and spiritual phenomena. Drawing from his pastoral observations in the…
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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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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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Watchman Nee · 1967 · Book
Changed Into His Likeness emerged from Watchman Nee's pastoral ministry in China during the 1930s and 1940s, addressing the practical struggles of Chinese Christians seeking to live transformed lives amid cultural upheaval…
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Watchman Nee · 1968 · Book
Watchman Nee wrote this meditation on Christian separation from worldliness during his final imprisonment under the Communist regime in China, though it was not published until after his death in 1972. The…
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Jay P. Green Sr. · 1985 · Scripture
Green's Literal Translation, also known as the Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, is an influential one-man rendering of Scripture that emphasizes close grammatical correspondence to the Hebrew and Greek. Covering the…
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Deuel Enterprises editorial project · 1994 · Scripture
The 21st Century King James Version is a conservative modernization of the King James Version, updating archaic vocabulary while seeking to preserve the cadence and textual base of its predecessor. It is…
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Volunteer / editor-driven project · 1998 · Scripture
The Modern Literal Version New Testament is a long-running literal rendering of the New Testament, developed and revised throughout the internet era, a period in which digital distribution allowed translation projects to…
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New Authorized Version Foundation editorial team · 1998 · Scripture
The Third Millennium Bible is a conservative modernization of the King James Version, undertaken as a revision rather than a fresh translation from the ancient sources. Its base text is the KJV,…
