Geneva New Testament

Produced by English Protestant exiles working in the orbit of continental Reformed scholarship, the Geneva New Testament served as the immediate precursor to the complete Geneva Bible and proved influential in English Reformed Bible culture. Its scope is confined to the New Testament, translated from Greek, working from the Greek New Testament together with continental scholarship. The guiding philosophy was that of a scholarly Reformed vernacular text, intended for private reading and study as much as for public use, and it may be categorised either as a fresh translation or as a revision, since it draws on Tyndale and the Great Bible as predecessor and base translations. Among its distinctive features, it introduced presentation conventions later associated with Geneva editions, helping to establish habits of layout and reference that shaped English Bibles for generations, and it stands within the wider tradition of sixteenth-century vernacular translation.