Revised Geneva Translation

The Revised Geneva Translation is a recent effort to recover and modernize the Geneva Bible tradition rather than the King James line that succeeded it. The Geneva Bible, produced by English Protestant exiles in the sixteenth century and widely read in the generations before and after the KJV, serves here as the base text, with the Hebrew and Greek originals consulted alongside the English Geneva tradition. Covering the complete Bible, the work follows a formal approach while modernizing the language, and is classed as a substantial revision, with the Geneva Bible named as both its predecessor and its base translation. It is to be distinguished from simple facsimiles or reprints of the 1560 or 1599 Geneva editions, which reproduce the historic text rather than revising it, and it belongs to a small body of modern projects that look to Geneva rather than to the KJV as their point of departure.