The Genealogy of the English Bible

The Original WritingsHebrew and Aramaic, c.1513–443 BCE ·Greek, 41–98 CEno original manuscript survivesDead Sea Scrollscopies 3rd c. BCE–1st c. CE, found from1947SeptuagintGreek Old Testament, 3rd–2nd c. BCEMasoretic TextHebrew, 6th–10th c. CEAlexandrian codices and papyriVaticanus, Sinaiticus, 4th c.available to scholars from the 1800sByzantine Greek manuscriptslate, numerous, uniformLatin VulgateJerome, c.405Textus ReceptusErasmus 1516 · Beza 1589Westcott and HortGreek text, 1881Nestle / Nestle-Alandcritical text, 1898 onwardTranslated directly from theoriginal languagesthe 1800sTranslated directly from theoriginal languages1900–1969Translated directly from theoriginal languages1970 onwardWycliffite Biblesc.1382–95two centuries before the DouayDouay-RheimsNT 1582 · OT 1609–10Knox BibleNT 1945 · complete 1955the English Catholic Bible of the 1950sChalloner revision1749–52⚠️Confraternity VersionNT 1941 · OT 1952–69NT revised from Challoner; OT translatedafreshNew American Bible1970 · NT revised 1986lectionary text modified📖TyndaleNT 1526 · Pentateuch 1530The Tudor BiblesCoverdale 1535 · Great Bible 1539 ·Geneva 1560 · Bishops' 1568King James Version1611Blayney's Oxford edition1769this, not 1611, is the “KJV” text soldtoday⚠️English Revised Version1881–85⚠️American Standard Version1901New King James1982⚠️The Emphatic DiaglottBenjamin Wilson, 1864Greek-English interlinear · Watch Towerreprint from 1942Young's Literal Translation1862 · rev. 1898Darby BibleNT 1867 · complete 1890Rotherham's Emphasised BibleNT 1872 · complete 1902Ginsburg's Hebrew, Westcott and HortMoffattNT 1913 · Bible 1926Smith–GoodspeedNT 1923 · Bible 1931An American TranslationThe Bible in Living EnglishByington · published 1972one man, some forty yearsJ. B. PhillipsNT 1958 · rev. 1972one man, New Testament onlyModern Language BibleNew Berkeley Version, 1959 · 1969New English BibleNT 1961 · Bible 1970a deliberate break with the KJV lineJerusalem Bible1966French Bible de Jérusalem as its modelNew World TranslationNT 1950 · complete 1961Westcott and Hort Greek, Kittel's HebrewGood News Bible / TEVNT 1966 · Bible 1976 · rev. 1992New International Version1978 · rev. 1984Contemporary English VersionNT 1991 · Bible 1995The MessageNT 1993 · Bible 2002a paraphrase, but made from Hebrew andGreek⚠️Holman Christian Standard →Christian Standard Bible2004 → 2017NET Bible2005 · 2nd ed. 201960,000+ translators' notes🔍Revised Standard VersionNT 1946 · Bible 1952 · NT rev. 1971New American Standard1971 · 1995 · 2020Amplified Bible1965 · rev. 2015World English Bible1997 onwardThe Living Bible1971freely reworded, not translatedNew Living Translation1996⚠️Legacy Standard Bible2021New Revised Standard Version1989 · NRSVue 2021📖English Standard Version2001New International Version2011the NIV sold today⚠️Revised English Bible1989RSV Catholic Edition1966RSV Second Catholic Edition2006NRSV Catholic Editionimprimatur 1991 · published 1993ESV Catholic Edition2018📖New American Bible, RevisedEdition2011Catholic American Bibletext approved 2024 · named 2025 · due2027📖New Jerusalem Bible1985CTS New Catholic Bible2007Jerusalem Bible text · Grail Psalms📖Revised New Jerusalem Bible2019📖NWT — With References1984 · “the Reference Bible”footnotes, appendices, concordance ·125,000+ cross-references🔍NWT — 2013 revision2013 · Study Edition 2015Nestle-Aland, UBS, BHS and BHQconsultedKingdom Interlinear Translation1969 · revised 1985Westcott and Hort's Greek text
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