Included when possible are dates and the source language(s) and, for incomplete translations, what portion of the text has been translated. Certain terms that occur in many entries are linked at the bottom of the page.
Because various biblical canons are not identical, the "incomplete translations" section includes only translations seen by their translators as incomplete, such as Christian translations of the New Testament alone. Translations comprising only part of certain canons are considered "complete" if they comprise the translators' complete canon, e.g. Jewish versions of the Tanakh.
A literal translation of the oldest known Aramaic New Testament texts in the form of a study bible having extensive annotation, a historical practice of textual scholarship to assist understanding in context. In this case, the period of early Christianity. For example, explaining the literal Aramaic of “Jesus” as “Y'shua”. The Aramaic is featured with Hebrew letters and vowel pointing.
The Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures (MATS) is a study bible which focuses on the study of the Aleph Tav character symbol used throughout the old testament (Tanakh) in both the Pentateuch and the Prophets, from the Messianic point of view, this English rendition reveals every place the Hebrew Aleph Tav symbol was used as a "free standing" character symbol believed by some Messianic groups to express the "strength of the covenant" in its original meaning.
OT was translated in stages, with editions progressively replacing books in the Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims; when complete, it was published in 1970 as the New American Bible
Replaces traditional ecclesiastical terminology such as "church", "bishop" and "baptise" with alternative translations such as "congregation", "overseer" and "immerse".
James Moffatt's 'The New Testament, A New Translation'
Aiming to be the first modern public domain translation, with the NT edited from the public domain Twentieth Century New Testament and the OT newly translated.
Organizes the text by the Masoretic section divisions (parashot) rather than the traditional Christian chapter divisions. Eight books currently published: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Samuel;[6] all are open access and accessible at https://archive.org.
Restored Greek syntax. A concordance of every form of every Greek word was made and systematized and turned into English. The whole Greek vocabulary was analyzed and translated, using a standard English equivalent for each Greek element.
Masoretic Text, various critical editions of the Greek text (i.a. Tregelles, Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort).
This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration.
Not associated with any church. Because of the short version of the title on the Darby Bible, which is New Translation, it is often confused with a translation done decades later by the Jehovah's Witnesses organization named the New World Translation.
Authorized King James Version which restores the Divine Name, Jehovah to the original text in 6,973 places, Jah in 50 places and Jehovah also appears in parentheses in the New Testament wherever the New Testament cross references a quote from the Old Testament in 297 places. Totaling to 7,320 places.
Uses various methods, such as "emphatic idiom" and special diacritical marks, to bring out nuances of the underlying Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts. Public Domain due to copyright expiration.
Derived from the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version.[8] Based on Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th ed., 1997); UBS Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); and Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed., 2012).[9]
Adheres to an "essentially literal" translation philosophy. Attempts wherever possible for the Old Testament "to translate difficult Hebrew passages as they stand in the Masoretic text rather than resorting to emendations or to finding an alternative reading in the ancient versions."[9]
The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. It follows the edition of Seligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baer's edition. For those books, C. D. Ginsburg's Hebrew text was used. This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration.
Public domain in most of the world. Crown copyright in the United Kingdom due to crown letters patent until 2039, and all countries which have international mutual copyright recognition agreements.
Published by Covenant Press. It is the first English translation featuring continuous text-blocks similar to the autographs. It also makes use of the caesura mark and the transliterated Tetragrammaton.
"Clarified Textus Receptus"[11]—including the Masoretic Text, Textus Receptus, MCT Octuagint,[12][13] and the MCT Brit Chadashah;[14] with contextual dictionaries and concordances.
States "A precise and unabridged translation of the 'Clarified Textus Receptus' -- including Hebrew OT to English, Greek NT to English, Hebrew OT to Greek OT (the MCT Octuagint) to English, and Greek NT to Hebrew NT (the MCT Brit Chadashah)".
The translation methodology is:
"Concept for concept, Context for context, Word for word."[10]
Published in "the Literary Reading Order"[15] by LivingSon Press[16]
By Ann Spangler, The Names of God Bible restores the transliterations of ancient names—such as Yahweh, El Shadday, El Elyon, and Adonay—to help the reader better understand the rich meaning of God's names that are found in the original Hebrew and Aramaic text.
The NABRE is the latest official English Catholic Bible translation released. An update to it (mainly to the New Testament as of now) is scheduled for release in 2025.
1950 (New Testament) 1960 (single volume complete Bible) 1984 (reference edition with footnotes) 2013 (revised) 2018 (Study Bible)
Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament, Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, Hebrew J documents, as well as various other families of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.
The RSV-2CE is a slight update of the 1966 Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition
It removes archaic pronouns (thee, thou) and accompanying verb forms (didst, speaketh), revises passages used in the lectionary according to the Vatican document Liturgiam authenticam and elevates some passages out of RSV footnotes when they reflect Catholic teaching. For instance, the RSV-2CE renders "almah" as "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, restores the term "begotten" in John 3:16 and other verses, uses the phrase "full of grace" instead of "favored one" in Luke 1:28, and substitutes "mercy" for "steadfast love" (translated from the Hebrew hesed) throughout the Psalms. As with the original RSV, gender-neutral language is not used when it has no direct referent in original language of the text.
This version is based on a limited 3000 word vocabulary and everyday sentence structure - it is also known as "the Plain English Bible, the International English Bible, and the God Chasers Extreme New Testament"
Codex Vaticanus (according to the introduction in the reprint edition by S. F. Pells) of the Septuagint (but excluding the Apocrypha) and of the New Testament
The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. It follows the edition of Seligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baer's edition. For those books, C. D. Ginsburg's Hebrew text was used.
"The heart of the project is retelling the story of the Bible in a form as fluid as modern literary works while remaining painstakingly true to the original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts." (ISBN1401680313)
1913 (first volumes of the NT) 1915, 1935 (various volumes and editions of the WVSS were published from 1913 - 1935)
Greek and Hebrew
This was an early Catholic attempt to translate the Bible into English from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek languages instead of from the Latin Vulgate. Was partially translated and released in various versions with the Douay-Rheims making up whatever books were not yet translated.
Based on the American Standard Version first published in 1901, the Biblia Hebraica Stutgartensa Old Testament, and the Greek Majority Text New Testament.
Released into the public domain by Rainbow Missions, Inc. (nonprofit corporation) [19]
Translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito, based on the eastern text, J. W. Etheridge (1846)[21]
John Wesley Etheridge's translation of the entire New Testament appears in The Etheridge New Testament (2013) compiled by Bruce A. Klein (has Etheridge's bracketed comments), and also in Etheridge Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament (2016) compiled by Ewan MacLeod
Murdock Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament (2015) compiled by Ewan MacLeod
The Syriac New Testament, based on the western text, James Murdock (1851)[22]
Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation by Janet M. Magiera
The Messianic Aleph Tav Interlinear Scriptures: Volume Four Gospels (2016) and Messianic Aleph Tav Interlinear Scriptures: Volume Five Acts-Revelation by William H. Sanford (interlinear Aramaic + Etheridge translation; interlinear Greek + English translation)
The Aramaic Gospels and Acts: Text and Translation (2003) by Joseph Pashka
A Translation, in English Daily Used, of the Peshito-Syriac Text, and of the Received Greek Text, of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John (1889) and A Translation, In English Daily Used, of the Seventeen Letters Forming Part of the Peshito-Syriac Books (1890) by William Norton
The Testimony of Yeshua (2013) by Lonnie Martin is a reworked Etheridge and Murdock rendition of the New Testament
The Message of Matthew: An Annotated Parallel Aramaic-English Gospel of Matthew (1991) by Rocco A. Errico
Crawford Codex of Revelation: Aramaic Interlinear with English Translation (2016) by Greg Glaser
Gorgias Press's The Antioch Bible series contains the Peshitta New Testament with English translation, plus many Peshitta Old Testament books
Lapid Jewish Aramaic New Testament by Christopher Fredrickson and Lapid Publications is a translation from the Khabouris Codex, Yonan Codex and Houghton 1199 Codex. It also includes 560 transliterations and definitions of key Aramaic words and phrases within the text. (2010)
This list does not include adaptations of such as the Hebraic Roots Version by James Trimm (2001) which are adaptations from the JPS New Testament (translated directly from Greek into Hebrew), not the Peshitta.
See also
Jane Aitken, first woman in the United States to print an English version of the Bible
^Anna Paues (1902), ed., A Fourteenth Century Biblical Version: Consisting of a Prologue and Parts of the New Testament, Cambridge: Cambridge University.
^Carter, Joe (September 30, 2016). "9 Things You Should Know About the ESV Bible". The Gospel Coalition. Archived from the original on May 31, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020. The starting point for the ESV translation was the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV).
^The Church Quarterly Review – Volume 40 – Page 105 Arthur Cayley Headlam – 1895 – At Mark vi. 47 there is no need to leave out 1 The collation of ancient Peshitto manuscripts on an adequate scale was commenced by the late Philip Edward Pusey, the son of Dr. Pusey, and has been continued by the Rev. G. H. Gwilliam, who has written on the text of the Peshitto in each volume of the Oxford Studia Biblica. ' Antient Recension, Preface, p. xciv. 3 The Syrian Churches, with a literal Translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito, J. W. Etheridge, 1846. 1 We allow that, ...
^Aramaic Peshitta New Testament Translation – Page 8 =0967961351 Janet M. Magiera – 2006 – "One was by James Murdock and the other by J. W. Etheridge. Murdock based his work on the western text and Etheridge on the eastern text. Both of them are still very useful in studying the Peshitta. In the 1930s, Dr. George Lamsa, a native speaker of Aramaic, completed a translation of the eastern manuscripts of the Peshitta and began to travel extensively in the United States, teaching about the value of studying Aramaic. From that time until the present, there has been a renewed ..."
Catalogue of English Bible Translations; A Classified Bibliography of Versions and Editions Including Books, Parts, and Old and New Testament Apocrypha and Apocryphal Books. William J. Chamberlin. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Dukhrana.com — site contains the transcription of the Khaboris Codex plus Etheridge, Murdock, Lamsa, Younan's interlinear translation of Matthew – Acts 16, translations into Dutch and Afrikaans, and an interlinear study tool.
Lamsa – OT and Lamsa – NT — Lamsa's translation of the Peshitta's Old Testament and New Testament
