Books by Dave Armstrong: “Victorian King James Version of the New Testament: A ‘Selection’ for Lovers of Elizabethan and Victorian Literature”

Authorised “King James” Version, “translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised,” 1611. It was translated by 47 men from the Church of England (just one person a layman). Revised for the “Cambridge edition” in 1760 by Francis Sawyer Parris, and again by Benjamin Blayney for a 1769 Oxford version. Public domain. Available online: http://thebiblecorner.com/englishbibles/

Robert Young, Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible (Edinburgh: George Adam Young & Co., 1862; revised by the author in 1887 and again by the publisher in 1898). Public domain. Available online: http://thebiblecorner.com/englishbibles/

Richard Francis Weymouth, The Modern Speech New Testament (London: James Clarke & Co / New York: Baker and Taylor Company, 1903). Public domain. Available online: http://thebiblecorner.com/englishbibles/

Twentieth Century New Testament (Revised edition: London: Horace Marshall & Son / New York and Chicago: The Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904). Translated by 20 non-scholars, all fluent in koine Greek; eventually advised by the scholars J. Rendel Harris and Richard Francis Weymouth. Public domain. Available online: http://thebiblecorner.com/englishbibles/

James Moffatt, A New Translation of the Bible (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, revised and final edition, 1935; New Testament: primarily 1922 with later minor revisions). Public domain. Available online: http://studybible.info/version/Moffatt