New Testament in Plain English

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 set the scriptures in the ordinary language of their own day rather than in the inherited idiom of earlier versions. In scope it covers the New Testament, translated from Greek on the basis of a critical Greek New Testament text, reflecting the practice, by then standard, of working from an edition established through textual scholarship rather than from the traditional printed text alone. Its translation philosophy is modern and readable, and it is categorised as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing one. Owing to the similarity of names, it should not be confused with Charles B. Williams's 1937 New Testament, a separate and independent work.