New Testament

A highly respected literary translation by a major classicist, the Lattimore New Testament renders the Greek text into English with the aim of following the structure of the original closely while avoiding churchly archaism. Its scope is the New Testament, translated from Greek on the basis of the Greek New Testament, and its guiding philosophy is formal-literary; it is categorized as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English version. Its translator, Richmond Lattimore, was known chiefly for his versions of Homer and other Greek poetry, and he approached the Gospels and Epistles with the habits of a translator of classical literature rather than those of a church committee. Among its distinctive features is its history of composition: an earlier translation of the Gospels and Revelation was subsequently expanded into a complete New Testament.