New Testament

The Samuel Davidson New Testament stands as a representative radical-critical English New Testament of the late nineteenth century, a period in which advances in the study of Greek manuscripts were reshaping English-language Bible work. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, rendered from the Greek and based on a critical Greek New Testament text rather than the traditional received text that had underpinned earlier English versions. The work follows a critical, scholarly philosophy and falls into the category of a fresh translation, prepared independently rather than as a revision of an existing English rendering. Among its distinctive features, it reflects advanced textual criticism for its time, and in this it belongs to the broader movement of nineteenth-century scholarship that sought to bring the results of manuscript study before English readers, a movement that also produced the era's major revision projects.