| Important Moments in Bible Translation History | ||||||
| Year | Bible/Text | Language | Link | |||
| 2nd Temple | Aramaic Targums | Aramaic | Info | |||
| 300bc-70ad | Apocryphal Writings | Search | ||||
| 280 B.C. | The Septuagint (LXX) | Greek | Download | |||
| 200bc-200ad | Pseudepigrapha Writings | Search | ||||
| 170 A.D. | Tatian's Diatessaron | Syriac | Read | |||
| 2nd Century | Theodotion's LXX | Greek | ||||
| 2nd Century | Aquila's LXX | Greek | ||||
| 2-3rd Century | Symmachus Translation | Greek | ||||
| 200 A.D. | Papyrus Bodmer 2, 14, 15 | Greek | ||||
| 200 A.D. | Sahidic Old Testament | Coptic | ||||
| 240 c. | Origen's Hexapla | Various | ||||
| 3rd Century | Chester Beatty Papyrus 1,2,3 | Greek | ||||
| 4th Century | Codex Sinaiticus (Aleph) | Greek | ||||
| 4th Century | Vatican Mss 1209 (B) | Greek | ||||
| 405 A.D. | The Latin Vulgate/Jerome | Latin | Download | |||
| 5th Century | Codex Alexandrinus (A) | Greek | ||||
| 5th Century | Syriac Peshitta | Aramaic | Download | |||
| 5th Century | Curetonian Syriac | Old Syriac | ||||
| 5th Century | Codex Ephraemi | Greek | ||||
| 450 A.D. | Ulfilas Gothic Bible | Gothic | Info | |||
| 5-6th Cent. | Codex Bezae | Greek/Latin | ||||
| 6-11th Cent. | Masoretic Text | Hebrew | ||||
| 8th Century | Book of Kells | Celtic | Buy | |||
| 895 A.D. | Cairo Codex | Hebrew | ||||
| 930 A.D. | Aleppo Codex | Hebrew | ||||
| 950 A.D. | Lindisfarne Gospels | Latin | ||||
| 9th Century | Latin Vulgate-Clementine Edition | Latin | ||||
| 9th Century | Cyril&Methodius Slavinoc Bible | Slavonic | ||||
| 9th Century | King Alfred's translation (partial) | O. English | ||||
| 10th Century | Aelfric translates Genesis-Judges | O. English | ||||
| 1008 A.D. | Leningrad Codex | Hebrew | ||||
| 10-11 Cent. | West Saxon Gospels | Saxon | Info | |||
| 10-11 Cent. | Notker Labeo Job&Psalms | Latin/German | ||||
| 1180 A.D.c | Waldenses Ancient Vaudois version | Provencal | ||||
| 1370 A.D. | Psalter by Henry of Mugeln | German | ||||
| 13-14th Cent. | Catalan Bible | Spanish | ||||
| 1380-82 | Wycliffe Bible (Nicholas) | English | ||||
| 1384-90 | Wycliffe Bible (J Purvey) | English | ||||
| 1385 A.D. | Shem Tob's Gospel of Matthew | Hebrew | Buy | |||
| 1422 A.D. | Alba Bible | Spanish | ||||
| 1456 A.D. | Gutenberg Bible | Latin | see press | |||
| 1514-17 | Polyglot Bible | Various | ||||
| 1516 A.D. | Erasmus Greek NT | Greek/Latin | ||||
| 1518 A.D. | Erasmus Greek NT-2nd Edition | Greek | ||||
| 1522 A.D. | Erasmus Greek NT-3rd Edition | Greek | ||||
| 1522-34 | Martin Luther's Bible | German | Download | |||
| 1525 A.D. | Tyndale's Version | English | Buy | |||
| 1527 A.D. | Erasmus Greek NT-4th Edition | Greek | ||||
| 1530-32 | Brucioli | Italian | ||||
| 1537 A.D. | Coverdale's Version | English | ||||
| 1537 A.D. | Matthew Bible (from Coverdale) | English | ||||
| 1539 A.D. | The Great Bible | English | ||||
| 1539-52 | Taverner (from Matthew) | English | ||||
| 1550 A.D. | Stephanus Greek Text | Greek | Download | |||
| 1555 A.D. | J. du Tillet's Gospel of Matthew | Hebrew | ||||
| 1557-1602 | Geneva Bible | English | Buy | |||
| 1565-1604 | Theodore Beza's Greek NT | Greek | ||||
| 1568-1606 | The Bishop's Bible | English | ||||
| 1575-79 | Latin Bible of Tremellio and Junio | Latin | ||||
| 1582-1610 | Douay-Rheims Bible | English | Download | |||
| 1610 A.D. | Reina-Valera | Spanish | Download | |||
| 1611 A.D. | King James Version | English | Download | |||
| 1633 A.D. | Elzevir's Textus Receptus/Received Text | Greek | ||||
| 1637 A.D. | Statenvertaling | Dutch | Download | |||
| 1640 A.D. | Bay Psalm Book | English | Search | |||
| 1653 A.D. | A Paraphrase/Annotation of N.T. by Hammond | English | ||||
| 1653 A.D. | John Milton's Psalms | English | ||||
| 1657 A.D. | Dutch Annot. On the Whole Bible/Haak | English | ||||
| 1661 A.D. | Eliot Indian Bible | Algonquin | ||||
| 1681-91 | Almeida | Portuguese | ||||
| 1685 A.D. | New Testament with Paraphrase/R. Baxter | English | ||||
| 1690 A.D. | Samuel Clarke Bible | English | ||||
| 1703 A.D. | Paraphrase/Comm. On the N.T. by D Whitby | English | ||||
| 1718 A.D. | The New Testament by Cornelius Nary | English | ||||
| 1724 A.D. | The Common Trans. corrected by E. Wells | English | ||||
| 1729 A.D. | New Testament in Grk and Eng. By Dav. Mace | Grk/English | ||||
| 1730 A.D. | Annotations on the N.T./Robert Witham | English | ||||
| 1730 A.D. | New Testament by William Webster | English | ||||
| 1745-90 | John Wesley New Testament | English | Search | |||
| 1745 A.D. | Primitive New Testament by W. Whiston | English | ||||
| 1752 A.D. | Exposition of N.T. by John Guyse | English | ||||
| 1755 A.D. | The Family Expositor by P. Doddridge | English | ||||
| 1761 A.D. | An Interpretation of the N.T./John Heylin | English | ||||
| 1764 A.D. | A New and Literal Translation/Purver | English | ||||
| 1764 A.D. | New Testament collated w/Grk by Rich. Wynne | English | ||||
| 1765 A.D. | New Trans. of New Testament by Sam. Palmer | English | ||||
| 1768 A.D. | A Liberal Translation of the N.T./Ed. Harwood | English | ||||
| 1770 A.D. | John Worsley New Testament | English | ||||
| 1773 A.D. | Universal Family Bible/Henry Southwell | English | ||||
| 1774 A.D. | Old Testament by Anselm Bayly | English | ||||
| 1775-77 | Griesbach New Testament Text | Greek | ||||
| 1778 A.D. | Bible in Verse/John Fellows | English | ||||
| 1790 A.D. | The Four Gospels by George Campbell | English | ||||
| 1790-93 | Scio Bible | Spanish | ||||
| 1791-95 | G.Wakefield New Testament | English | ||||
| 1795 A.D. | A New Literal Translation by J. MacKnight | English | ||||
| 1795 A.D. | Thomas Haweis New Testament | English | ||||
| 1795 A.D. | Samuel Clarke/Thomas Pyle New Testament | English | ||||
| 1796 A.D. | William Newcome New Testament | English | ||||
| 1798 A.D. | Nathaniel Scarlett New Testament | English | ||||
| 1799-1815 | a Revised Translation & Interpretation/McRae | English | ||||
| 1808 A.D. | Septuagint by Charles Thomson | English | ||||
| 1808 A.D. | NT in an Improved Version/Newcome | English | Download | |||
| 1812 A.D. | William Williams New Testament | English | ||||
| 1815 A.D. | Gospels by Charles Thomson | English | ||||
| 1816 A.D. | NT in an Improved Version/Newcome/Belsham | English | ||||
| 1816 A.D. | William Thomson New Testament | English | ||||
| 1822 A.D. | Abner Kneeland New Testament | English | ||||
| 1823 A.D. | A New Family Bible by Boothroyd | English | ||||
| 1824 A.D. | John Wilkins Revised Testament | English | ||||
| 1826 A.D. | Alexander Campbell New Testament | English | ||||
| 1827 A.D. | G.R. Noyes New Testament | English | ||||
| 1828 A.D. | J.G. Palfrey New Testament | English | ||||
| 1830 A.D. | Egbert Benson Epistles | English | ||||
| 1831 A.D. | Lachmann's Greek Testament | Greek | ||||
| 1833 A.D. | Webster's Bible | English | Download | |||
| 1833 A.D. | The Sacred Writings by MacKnight/Campbell | English | ||||
| 1833 A.D. | Rodolphus Dickinson New Testament | English | ||||
| 1833-37 | G.R. Noyes Prophets | English | ||||
| 1834 A.D. | Holy Bible by George Townsend | English | ||||
| 1835 A.D. | Holy Writings of the 1st Christians/Caldecott | English | ||||
| 1836 A.D. | G. Penn New Covenant | English | ||||
| 1841 A.D. | Holy Bible with 20,000 emendations/Conquest | English | ||||
| 1841-72 | Tischendorf's Greek Text-8 Editions | Greek | Download | |||
| 1842 A.D. | A.C. Kendrick Bible | English | ||||
| 1842-50 | Lachmann's Greek Testament-2nd Edition | Greek | ||||
| 1844 A.D. | Holy Bible by T.J. Hussey | English | ||||
| 1845 A.D. | Isaac Leeser O.T. | English | ||||
| 1848 A.D. | Jonathan Morgan New Testament | English | ||||
| 1849-60 | F.P. Kenrick Bible | English | ||||
| 1849 A.D. | J.W. Etheridge New Testament | English | ||||
| 1849 A.D. | Nathan Whiting New Testament | English | ||||
| 1850 A.D. | Cone & Wyckoff New Testament | English | ||||
| 1851 A.D. | Septuagint w/Apocrypha by Brenton | Greek/English | Buy | |||
| 1852 A.D. | The New Testament from the Syriac/J.Murdock | English | ||||
| 1852 A.D. | Hezekiah Woodruff New Testament | English | ||||
| 1854 A.D. | Emphatic New Testament by John Taylor | English | ||||
| 1855 A.D. | Andrews Norton Gospels | English | ||||
| 1855-71 | Elberfelder | German | Search | |||
| 1856 A.D. | The New Testament by Samuel Sharpe | English | ||||
| 1857 A.D. | John Bengel New Testament | English | ||||
| 1857-72 | Tregelles Greek Text | Greek | ||||
| 1858 A.D. | Alexander Vance Old Testament | English | ||||
| 1858-64 | Leicester Sawyer Bible | English | ||||
| 1861 A.D. | Jewish School&Family Bible/A. Benisch | English | ||||
| 1861 A.D. | Leonard Thorn New Testament | English | ||||
| 1862-64 | American Bible Union New Testament (partial) | English | ||||
| 1862-98 | Young's Literal Translation | English | Download | |||
| 1864 A.D. | H.T. Anderson New Testament | English | ||||
| 1864 A.D. | Emphatic Diaglott | Greek/English | Contact | |||
| 1865 A.D. | Twofold New Testament/Thomas Green | English | ||||
| 1867 A.D. | Inspired Version by Joseph Smith | English | ||||
| 1869 A.D. | Henry Alford N.T. | English | ||||
| 1869 A.D. | Robert Ainslie New Testament | English | ||||
| 1869 A.D. | Nathaniel Folsom Gospels | English | ||||
| 1870 A.D. | J. Bowes New Testament | English | ||||
| 1870 A.D. | Gotch&Jacob Holy Bible | English | ||||
| 1871-90 | J.N. Darby Translation | English | Download | |||
| 1873-80 | Louis Segond | French | Download | |||
| 1875 A.D. | John McLellan New Testament | English | ||||
| 1875 A.D. | Samuel Davidson New Testament | English | ||||
| 1876 A.D. | Julia Smith Bible | English | ||||
| 1878-1902 | The Emphasized Bible/Rotherham | English | ||||
| 1880 A.D. | Hermann Gollancz Bible | English | ||||
| 1881 A.D. | The Greek Testament Englished/Crickmer | English | ||||
| 1881 A.D. | Westcott and Hort Greek Text | Greek | Download | |||
| 1883 A.D. | Cortes Jackson New Testament | English | ||||
| 1884 A.D. | The Englishman's Bible/Thomas Newberrry | English | ||||
| 1884-86 A.D. | New Covenant by J.W. Hanson | English | ||||
| 1885 A.D. | Teaching & Acts of Jesus by W.D. Dillard | English | ||||
| 1885 A.D. | Helen Spurrell Old Testament | English | ||||
| 1885-95 | English Revised Version | English | ||||
| 1892 A.D. | Biblia Innocentium by John Mackail | English | ||||
| 1893 A.D. | Reina-Valera | Spanish | ||||
| 1894 A.D. | F.H.A. Scrivener's Received Text/TR | Greek | Download | |||
| 1894-1905 | Crampon | French | ||||
| 1893 A.D. | John Peters and Edward Bartlett Scriptures | English | ||||
| 1895 A.D. | Ferrar Fenton | English | ||||
| 1897 A.D. | New Dispensation by Robert Weekes | English | ||||
| 1898 A.D. | Epistles of Paul in Modern English/Stevens | English | ||||
| 1900 A.D. | 20th Century New Testament | English | ||||
| 1901 A.D. | American Standard Version | English | Download | |||
| 1902-13 | Von Soden's Apparatus | Greek | ||||
| 1904 A.D. | Worrell's New Testament | English | ||||
| 1905 A.D. | Godbey New Testament | English | ||||
| 1910 A.D. | Alexander Souter's Greek NT | Greek | ||||
| 1912 A.D. | Weymouth's New Testament | English | Download | |||
| 1917 A.D. | The Holy Scriptures/Jewish Publication Society | English | Search | |||
| 1922 A.D. | James Moffatt Bible | English | ||||
| 1924 A.D. | Centenary Version New Testament | English | ||||
| 1924 A.D. | Montgomery New Testament | English | ||||
| 1926 A.D. | Concordant Literal New Testament | English | Search | |||
| 1929 A.D. | Westminster Version | English | ||||
| 1933 A.D. | George M. Lamsa Translation | English | ||||
| 1934 A.D. | Riverside New Testament/Ballantine | English | ||||
| 1935 A.D. | An American Translation/Smith&Goodspeed | English | ||||
| 1937 A.D. | Charles B. Williams New Testament | English | ||||
| 1938 A.D. | The Book of Books/R.M. Wilson | English | ||||
| 1940 A.D. | Spencer New Testament | English | ||||
| 1941 A.D. | Confraternity Bible | English | ||||
| 1941 A.D. | Bible in Basic English | English | Download | |||
| 1942 A.D. | Nestle's Greek Text | Greek | ||||
| 1943 A.D. | Jose Bover's Text | Greek | ||||
| 1945 A.D. | Modern Language Bible/New Berkeley Version | English | ||||
| 1945 A.D. | Nag Hammadi Library Discovered | |||||
| 1945 A.D. | New Testament by Monsignor Ronald A. Knox | English | ||||
| 1946-51 | Revised Standard Version | English | Search | |||
| 1947 A.D. | Swann New Testament | English | ||||
| 1947 A.D. | New Testament Letters by J.W.C. Wand | English | ||||
| 1947 A.D. | 1QIs Dead Sea Scrolls | Greek | ||||
| 1948 A.D. | Augustinus Merk Text | Greek | ||||
| 1948 A.D. | Letchworth Version | English | ||||
| 1950-63 | Holy Name bible/Traina | English | ||||
| 1950-61 | New World Translation | English | Contact | |||
| 1951-55 | Kittel's Biblia Hebraica | Hebrew | ||||
| 1951-61 | Simplified New Testament by Norlie | English | ||||
| 1956 A.D. | Laubach's Inspired Letters of the N.T. | English | ||||
| 1956 A.D. | Kleist&Lilly New Testament | English | ||||
| 1960 A.D. | New Testament in Modern English/J.B.Phillips | Search | ||||
| 1960-71 | New American Standard Version | English | Search | |||
| 1961 A.D. | New Testament-Expanded Translation/Wuest | English | ||||
| 1961 A.D. | Noli New Testament | English | ||||
| 1961 A.D. | Dartmouth Bible | English | ||||
| 1962-82 | New Testament by Richmond Lattimore | English | ||||
| 1965 A.D. | The Amplified Bible | English | ||||
| 1966 A.D. | Good News Bible/Today's English Version | English | ||||
| 1966 A.D. | The Jerusalem Bible | English | ||||
| 1969 A.D. | Kingdom Interlinear Translation | Greek/English | Contact | |||
| 1969 A.D. | Barclay New Testament | English | ||||
| 1969 A.D. | New Life New Testament/Ledyard | English | ||||
| 1970 A.D. | The New American Bible | English | Search | |||
| 1970 A.D. | Restoration of the Sacred Name Bible | English | ||||
| 1970 A.D. | New English Bible | English | ||||
| 1972 A.D. | The Living Bible | English | ||||
| 1972 A.D. | Common Bible-RSV | English | ||||
| 1972 A.D. | The Bible in Living English/S.T. Byington | English | ||||
| 1973 A.D. | Cotton Patch Version | English | ||||
| 1973 A.D. | Jewish Family Bible | English | ||||
| 1975 A.D. | Word Made Fresh/Edington | English | ||||
| 1975 A.D. | United Bible Societies Text | Greek | ||||
| 1976 A.D. | Hodges-Farstad Majority Text | Greek | ||||
| 1976 A.D. | An American Translation by William F. Beck | Hebrew | ||||
| 1977 A.D. | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia | Hebrew | ||||
| 1978 A.D. | New International Version | English | Search | |||
| 1978 A.D. | Simple English Bible | English | ||||
| 1979 A.D. | King James Version II/Jay P Green | Greek/English | ||||
| 1979 A.D. | New King James Version | English | Search | |||
| 1979 A.D. | Nestle-Aland Greek Text | Greek | Download | |||
| 1980 A.D. | Versified Rendering of the Gospels/Faw | English | ||||
| 1980-96 | The Literal Translation of the Holy Bible | English | Search | |||
| 1983-88 | New Century Version | English | ||||
| 1984 A.D. | Inclusive Language New Testament | English | ||||
| 1985 A.D. | The Original New Testament/Schonfield | English | ||||
| 1985 A.D. | Tanakh-New Jewish P. Society | English | ||||
| 1985-91 | Recovery Version | English | ||||
| 1985 A.D. | New Jerusalem Bible | English | ||||
| 1987-99 | World Bible Translation | English | Download | |||
| 1989 A.D. | Jewish New Testament | English | ||||
| 1989 A.D. | Revised English Bible | English | ||||
| 1989 A.D. | Heinz Cassirer New Testament | English | ||||
| 1989 A.D. | McCord's New Testament | English | ||||
| 1989 A.D. | New Revised Standard Version | English | Search | |||
| 1990 A.D. | New Evangelical Translation | English | ||||
| 1991 A.D. | Unvarnished New Testament by Andy Gaus | English | Buy | |||
| 1995 A.D. | Contemporary English Version | English | ||||
| 1993 A.D. | Worldwide English Bible | English | Search | |||
| 1993 A.D. | The Five Gospels/Jesus Seminar | English | ||||
| 1993 A.D. | The Message-New Testament | English | ||||
| 1994 A.D. | 21st Century King James Version | English | Search | |||
| 1995 A.D. | An Inclusive Version | English | ||||
| 1995 A.D. | Robinson-Pierpont Majority Text | Greek | Download | |||
| 1995-98 | New International readers Version | English | ||||
| 1995-2001 | NET Bible | English | Download | |||
| 1996 A.D. | Schocken Bible/Everett Fox | English | ||||
| 1996 A.D. | Three Gospels/R. Price | English | Buy | |||
| 1996 A.D. | God's Word Bible | English | Search | |||
| 1996 A.D. | New Living Translation | English | Search | |||
| 1999 A.D. | 21st Century New Testament | English | ||||
| 1999 A.D. | Modern King James Version | English | Search | |||
| 1999 A.D. | New Millenium Bible/Wallace | English | ||||
| 1999 A.D. | World English Bible | English | Download | |||
| 1999 to… | Original Bible Project | English | View | |||
| 2000 A.D. | HCSB New Testament | English | Buy | |||
| 2000 A.D. | International English Bible | English | Buy | |||
| 2000 A.D. | New English Trans. of Septuagint/Pietersma | English | ||||
| 2001 A.D. | English Standard Version | English | Buy | |||
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