Weymouth New Testament

An influential "modern speech" rendering of the New Testament, the Weymouth New Testament is notable for its emphasis on natural contemporary English. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from the Greek on the basis of Weymouth's own Resultant Greek Testament, an edition drawn from the critical scholarship of the nineteenth century. It is classified as a fresh translation following an idiomatic and critical philosophy rather than a revision of earlier English versions, and its distinguishing aim is to communicate the sense of the Greek rather than to preserve traditional ecclesiastical wording. Appearing in the era when the Authorized Version's diction still dominated public reading, it belongs to a wave of translations that sought to present the New Testament in the ordinary speech of its readers. It was widely read and frequently reprinted, and it is often cited alongside other early twentieth-century efforts that prepared the way for later modern-language Bibles.