Translations/Versions
1384 Wycliffe (from Latin Vulgate) (c1384)
1535 Coverdale's Bible
1526 Tyndale's NT (1526) & Pentateuch (1530)
1537 Matthew's Bible
1539 Taverner's Bible
1539 The Great Bible
1557 Whitteñham New Testament
1560 The Geneva Bible
1568 The Bishop'sBible
1582 The Rheims New Testament; English College at Rheims
1609 The Douai Old Testament (1609-1610)
1611 King James Version (KJV), also called Authorized Version
1749 Challoner's Revision (1749-1750
1772 Douai Revision
1796 Four Gospels by George Campbell
1818 New Testament Translation by George Campbell, Doddridge and (James?) Macknight. 1826 Campbell. The Sacred Writing of the Apostles and Evangelists of
Jesus Christ, Commonly Styled The New Testament. Modification of an earlier translation by George Campbell, Doddridge and Mack night. Improvements by Alexander Campbell.
1862 Young's Translation. Literal Translation of the Bible by Robert Young, author of Young's Concordance.
1867 Smith's Holy Scriptures by Joseph Smith (Morman) It is now popularly referred to as Inspired Version.
1869 Afford's New Testament
1876 Smith's Bible by Julia E. Smith Parker. literal translation
1881 The English Revised Version (OT, 1885)
1900 Hayman's Epistles
1901 American Standard Version
1901 Modern American Bible
1901 Moffatt's Historical New Testament
1901 Way's Letters. The Letters of St. Paul to Seven Churches and Three Friends (WL). By Arthur S. Way. Revised to include Hebrews, 1906.
1901 Young People's Bible
1902 Emphasized Bible by Joseph Bryant Rotherham.
1902 Godbey's New Testament (date uncertain)
1902 Twentieth Century New Testament (WH text)
1903 Fenton's Bible in Modern English
1903 Weymouth Modern Speech New Testament
1904 Worrell's New Testament
1905 Lloyd's New Testment
1906 Forster—St. John, Epistles and Revelation by Henry Langstaff Forster.
1907 Bourne's Gospels by A. E. Bourne
1907 Moulton's Modern Reader's Bible by Richard G. Moulton
1908 Rutherford's Epistles by W. G. Rutherford
1909 The Bible in Modern English
1909 Weaver New Testament by S. Townsend Weaver
1910 Cunard's revision of St. Matthew's Gospel
1912 Improved Bible Union Version by American Baptist Publication Society
1913 Moffatt Bible
1914 Cunuington's New Testament by E. E. Cunnington
1914 Numeric New Testament "From Greek text as established by Bible Numerics" Edited by Ivan Parnn
1916 McFadyen—Psalms in Modern Speech and Rhythmical Form by John Edgar McFadyen
1917 Jewish Publication Society Bible
1918 Anderson New Testament from Sinai'tica Manuscript by H. T. Andersàn
1919 The Messages of the Bible. Edited by Frank K. Sanders and Charles F. Kent. Free rendering in paraphrase.
1921 Pym: Mark's Account of Jesus in Common Speech by T. W. Pym
1921 Shorter Bible by Charles Foster Kent, et al; omits about 66% of OT and 33% of NT.
1922 Plainer Bible for Plain People in Plain American by Chaplain Frank Schell Ballentine.
1923 The Riverside New Testament by William G. Ballantine
1923 Robertson's Translation of Luke's Gospel by A. T. Robertson
1923 Smith-Goodspeed Bible
1924 Centenary New Testament
1924 Labor Determinative Version by Determinative Revision Committee. "revised for the recovery of Biblical labor standards."
1924 Montgomery's Centenary New Testament by Helen Barret Montgomery
1925 Askwith's Psalms (Book IV and V) by E. H. Askwith
1925 Children's Bible. Selections from OT &. NT translated and arranged by Henry A. Gherman and Charles Foster Kent.
1925 People's New Covenant by Arthur E. Overbury. Based on Mary Baker Eddy premises.
1926 Moffatt's Translation of the Bible by James Moffatt. (revised in 1935)
1927 Kent's Student's Old Testament. Logically and chronologically arranged and translated by Charles Foster Kent.
1927 Smith-Goodspeed. OT by J. M...Powis Smith (1927) and NT (1923) Edgar J. Goodspeed Revised 1935. Reprinted with Apocrypha
1928 Christian's Bible—New Testament by George Le Fevre
1928 Czarnomska Version edited by Elizabeth Czarnomska
1928 Spiritualist's Matthew by J. W. Potter
1929 Gowen's Psalms by Herbert H. Gown
1930 Loux' Mark by DuBois H. Loux
1931 Wale's Psalms by Frank H. Wales
1932 Chaplain Ballentine translation and rearrangement to read as a modem novel, by Chaplain rank Schell] Ballentine.
1932 Kleist's Memoirs of St. Peter (Gospel of Mark) by James A. Kleist.
1933 Torrey's Four Gospels by Charles Cutler Torrey, "to show that Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John were composed in Aramaic."
1934 Old Testament in Colloquial English. "Listed in E. H. Robertson's The New Translation of the Bible."
1934 Royds' Epistles and Gospels by Thomas Fletcher Royds
1934 Wade. The Documents of the New Testament by G. W. Wade. From WH text.
1935 Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures by English Roman Catholic scholars under the editorship of Cuthbert Lattey, S. J. Not an "official" translation.
1937 Cornish's St. Paul from the Trenches. Of 1 & 2 Corinthians and part of Ephesians by Gerald Warre Cornish.
1937 Greber's New Testament by Johannes Greber. "based mainly on Codex Bezae..."
1937 Martin's New Testament by William Wallace Martin.(Other parts of the bible between 1928-1941) "reconstructed 36 epistles into 21".
1937 Spencer's New Testament by Francis Aloysius Spencer, o. P. edited by Charles J. Callan, 0. P. and John A. McHugh, 0. P.
1937 Williams' New Test
ament by Charles B. Williams' in "language of the people" from WH text.
1938 Book of Books. New Testament by the United Society for Christian Literature to celebrate the centenary of the Annotated Paragraph Bible.
1938 Buttenweiser's Psalms by Moses Buttenweiser. Chronologically treated.
1938 Clementson's New Testament by Edgar Lewis Ciementson, The Evangelization Society of the Pittsburgh Bible Institute.
1939 Oesterley Psalms. by W. 0. E. Oesterley
1940 Dakes' Gospels by John A. Dakes, a Greek businessman
1940 St. Mark in Current English by Mary L. Matheson.
1941 Confraternity New Testament
1941 Challoner-Rheims Version (Revision)
1942 Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson,
1944 Callan's Psalms by Charles J. Callan 1944 Wand's New Testament Letters, a paraphrase by J. W. C. Wand; Australia.
1944 Knox Bible (1944-1949)
1945 Stringfellow's New Testament by Ervin Edward Stringfellow. From WH text.
1946 Lenski by R. C. H. Lenski
1947 Eerdmans' Psalms by B. D. Eerdmans
1948 Letchworth New Testament by T. F. Ford
1949 Basic Bible by C. K. Ogden
1949 New Testament of Basic English
1949 Leslie's Psalms by Elmer A. Leslie 1951 Authentic Version by anonymous translator
1951 Vernon 's Mark by Edward Vernon
1950 New World Translation of the Christian Scriptures (revised 1951 & 1961) Jehovah's Witness
1952 New Testament in Plain English by Charles Kingsley Williams'
1952 Penguin Bible (Rieu) by E.V. Rieu
1952 Revised Standard Version (NT in 1946)
1954 Kissane's Psalms by Monsignor Edward J. Kissane
1954 Kleist and Lilly's New Testament by James A. Kleist and Joseph L. Lilly
1954 Kleist and Lynam's Psalms by James A. Kleist and Thomas Janes Lynam
1954 Moore's New Testament, by George Albert Moore
1955 Fides Translation (Psalms) by Mary Perkins Ryan
1955 Knox by Monsignor Knox
1955 Schonfield's Authentic New Testament by Hugh J. Schonfield
1956 Laubach's Inspired Letters by Frank C. Laubach
1957 Concordant Version
1957 Lamsa's by George M. Lamsa, translated from the Peshitta, an ancient Eastern MS (Original Aramaic).
1957 Phillips New Testament
1958 Hudson by James T Hudson
1958 The Amplified Bible by Frances Siewert(Paraphrase)
1958 Phillips' Modern English New Testament by J B Phillips
1958 Tomanek's New Testament by James L Tomanek
1959 Cressman by Annie Cressman
1959 Modern Language Bible (Berkeley) by Gerrit Verkuyl
1960 The Children's "King James" by Jay Green and "Peter" Palmer
1961 New World Translation—Jehovah's Witnesses by the New World Bible Translation Committee. Revised, edition.
1961 Noli's Greek Orthodox New Testament by Fan S Noli
1961 One Way: The Jesus People New Testament (same Norlie's NT 1951)
1961 Simplified New Testament (Norlie) by Olaf M. Norlie
1961 The New English New Testament (bible in 1970)
1961 Wuest's Expanded New Testament by Kenneth S. Wuest
1962 Children's Version, simplification and modernization of the KJV, Preface by Jay Green
1962 Revised Standard Version (New edition)
1962 Jewish Publication Society Old Testament (1982)
1963 Bech's New Testament by William F. Beck
1963 Gelineau's Psalms by Joseph Gelineau
1963 New American Standard Bible
1963 The Holy Name Bible by A. B. Traina
1964 Anchor Bible by William F. Albright and David N. Freedman
1964 Hadas' Psalms by Gershon Hadas
1964 Revised Standard Version (Catholic edition)
1965 Amplified Bible by Frances E. Siewert
1965 Bruce's Expanded Paraphrase by Drs. Scrivener, Moulton & Greenup, F. F. Bruce
1966 Burke's God is For Real Man. by Carl F. Burke. A free treatment of text.
1966 Good News for Modern Man Bible (1971)
1966 Jerusalem Bible by Alexander Jones
1966 Living Scriptures by Jay Green
l966 The Bible in Simplified English
1966 Today's English Version
1967 Dale's New World by Alan T. Dale
1967 Liverpool Vernacular Gospels by Dick Williams and Frank Shaw
1967 The Living Bible (Paraphrase) by Ken Taylor
1967 Greatest is Love Paraphrase (Paraphrase) by Ken Taylor
1968 Cotton Patch Version by Clarence Jordan
1968 Hanson's Psalms in Modem Speech by Richard S. Hanson
1968 Restoration of Original Name New Testament
1969 Barclay's New Testament by William Barclay
1969 Children's New Testament by Gleason H. Ledyard
1970 New American Bible by members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (Confraternity New Testament)
1970 The New English Bible (NT in 1961)
1970 The Mercier New Testament by Kevin Condon
1971 Blackwelder's Exegetical Translation by Boyce W. Blackwelder
1971 New American Standard Bible
1972 The Bible in Living English by Steven T. Byington
1973 Common Bible (appears to be another name for RSV)
1973 New International Version
1973 The Better Version of the New Testament by Chester Estes
1973 The Translator's New Testament by team of 37 under the direction of W. D. McHardy.
1979 New King James Bible
1982 Reader's Digest Bible Bruce M. Metzger, general editor (condensed)
1986 Marshall Parallel New Testament. An interlinear by Alfred Marshall.
1987 New Century Version by the World Bible Translation Center, Ft. Worth, Texas. 1987 Easy-To-Read Version (1978, 1981, 1982) by the World Bible Translation Center, Ft. Worth, Texas. Based on the New Century Version. Also published under the name of English Version for the Deaf.
1987 The Everyday Bible by the World Bible Translation Center, Ft. Worth, Texas.Based on the New Century Version.
1988 International Children's Bible (1983, 1986). by the World Bible Translation Center, Ft. Worth, Texas. Based on the New Century Version.
1988 McCord's Translation of the New Testament by Hugo McCord
1989 New Revised Standard Version:
400 Jerome's Latin Vulgate
1528 Pagninus' Latin Bible
1556 Beza's Latin New Testament
Note: Boldface indicates complete New Testament or complete Bible; lightface type signifies a portion of the Bible.
Compiled by L. G. Butler. Information came primarily from Kübo, Sakae and Walter Specht. So Many Versions? Twentieth Century English Versions of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Corportion, 1975. Chart of the English Bible. New York: American Bible Society, 1990. Herbert, A. S. Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible 1525-1961. (Revised and Expanded from the Edition of T. H. Darlow and H. F. Moule, 1903), London/New York: The British and Foreign Bible Society/The American Bible Society, 1968. A Ready-Reference History of the English Bible (1971 Revision). New York: American Bible Society, 1971.. These, in addition to a limited personal collection. For most entries it was not possible to confirm accuracy in a primary source. This list is probably not comprehensive. Time and space limitations constrained the amount of information which could be included. For more detailed information see the references cited. This list should be viewed as a working draft rather than a final list. Please send any corrections, additions, or suggestions to
L. G. Butler, 4503 53rd St., Lubbock, TX 79414.
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