New Covenant Commonly Called the New Testament

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 New Testament alone, translated from the Greek and based on a critical Greek New Testament text, in keeping with the period's growing reliance on editions built from earlier manuscript evidence rather than the traditional printed text underlying the Authorized Version. The approach is literal and critical in orientation, and the work stands as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English version. Among its distinctive characteristics is a manner of expression less idiomatic than that of the modern-speech versions produced in the same period, when a number of independent translators were issuing New Testaments in contemporary English. It belongs to that broader wave of private translation work that followed the revision movement of the later nineteenth century.