The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew. The Latin Vulgate translation was dominant in Western Christianity through the Middle Ages. Since then, the Bible has been translated into many more languages. English Bible translations also have a rich and varied history of more than a millennium.
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.
Early incomplete Bibles +List of incomplete Bibles Bible Translated sections English variant Date SourceNotesAldhelm Psalms (existence disputed) Old EnglishLate 7th or early 8th century Vulgate Bede Gospel of John (lost) Old English Vulgate Psalters (12 in total), including the Vespasian Psalter and Eadwine Psalter English glosses of Latin psalters 9th century Vulgate King Alfred Pentateuch, including the Ten Commandments; possibly also the Psalms Old English Vulgate Aldred the Scribe Northumbrian interlinear gloss on the Gospels in the Lindisfarne Gospels Old English950 to 970 Vulgate Farman Gloss on the Gospel of Matthew in the Rushworth Gospels Old English950 to 970 Vulgate Ælfric Pentateuch, Book of Joshua, Judges Old English Vulgate Wessex Gospels Gospels Old English Old Latin Caedmon manuscript A few English Bible verses Old English700 to 1000 Vulgate The Ormulum Some passages from the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles Middle English Vulgate Rolle Various passages, including some of the Psalms Middle EnglishEarly 14th century Vulgate West Midland Psalms Psalms Middle EnglishEarly 14th century Vulgate Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Parson's Tale", in The Canterbury Tales Many Bible verses Middle English Vulgate A Fourteenth Century Biblical Version: Consisting of a Prologue and Parts of the New TestamentAnna Paues (1902), ed., A Fourteenth Century Biblical Version: Consisting of a Prologue and Parts of the New Testament, Cambridge: Cambridge University. New Testament Middle English Vulgate Life of Soul Majority of text consists of Biblical quotations Middle English Vulgate Nicholas Love, OCart, The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ Gospels paraphrased Middle English (printed 6 times before 1535) Johannes de Caulibus, OFM (possible author),Meditationes Vitae Christi (in Latin) William Caxton Various passages Middle English1483 (Golden Legend)1484 (The Book of the Knight of the Tower) A French translationTyndale BibleIncomplete translation. Tyndale's other Old Testament work went into the Matthew's Bible (1537).Early Modern English1526 (, revised 1534)1530 ()Masoretic TextErasmus' third NT edition (1522)Martin Luther's 1522 German Bible.
Partial Bibles
Bible Content English variant Year SourceNotes Aramaic English New Testament New Testament Modern English and Hebrew (Divine names) 2008–2012 Aramaic New Testament texts 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. Bible in Worldwide English New Testament Modern English 1969 Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint Old Testament Modern English 1844 Septuagint The Christian Scriptures New Testament Modern English In progress (December 2019) Greek-English interlinear Bibles and public domain translations of the New Testament No chapters or verses; includes line numbers; logical book order; footnotes for every OT quotation in the NT; extensive index and preface The Common Edition New Testament New Testament Modern English 1999 Confraternity Bible New Testament Modern English 1941 Revision of the Challoner Revision of the Rheims New Testament. 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 Disciples' Literal New Testament New Testament Modern English 2011 Greek New Testament Literal New Testament by Michael Magill aiming for clarity with consistent terms. Emphatic Diaglott New Testament Modern English 1864 Greek text recension by Dr Johann Jakob Griesbach First Nations VersionGospelsIndigenous English2021 Five Pauline Epistles, A New Translation New Testament Modern English 1908 (combined in one volume in 1984) Epistles of Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, by Scottish scholar William Gunion Rutherford The Four Gospels, by E. V. Rieu, Penguin Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John Modern English 1952 God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation New Testament Modern English 1989 Grail Psalms Book of Psalms Modern English 1963 (revised 2008, 2018) French Translated according to the principles of Gelineau psalmody. Used for liturgical worship by the Catholic Church. The Kingdom New Testament: A Contemporary Translation New Testament Modern English 2011 Eclectic Greek By NT Wright.. The Living Oracles New Testament Modern English 1826 Compiled and translated by Alexander Campbell based translations by George Campbell, James MacKnight and Philip Doddridge, with reference to the 1805 critical Greek text by Johann Jakob Griesbach Replaces traditional ecclesiastical terminology such as "church", "bishop" and "baptise" with alternative translations such as "congregation", "overseer" and "immerse". Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and some of the New Testament Modern English and Hebrew (Divine Names) In progress Masoretic Text Old TestamentThe 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. James Moffatt's 'The New Testament, A New Translation' New Testament Modern English 1913 Greek text of Hermann von Soden Helen Barrett Montgomery, Centenary Translation of the New Testament New Testament Modern English 1924A New New Testament: A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered TextsNew Testament and a selection of NT apocryphaModern English2013A translation of all the books included in the traditional New Testament canon, with the addition of the ten new books (mostly coming from the Nag Hammadi manuscripts): Gospel of Thomas; Gospel of Mary; Gospel of Truth; The Thunder: Perfect Mind; Odes of Solomon (I, II, III, IV); Prayer of Thanksgiving; Prayer of the Apostle Paul; Acts of Paul and Thecla; Letter of Peter to Philip; Secret Revelation of John. Edited and with commentary by biblical scholar Hal Taussig. The New Testament translated by Richmond Lattimore New Testament Modern English 1962–1982 (Compiled in one volume in 1996)Wescott-Hort Text By Richmond Lattimore. The New Testament in Modern English (J.B. Phillips) New Testament Modern English 1958 The New Testament: A Translation (2nd edition) New Testament Modern English 2017, 2023 Primarily, the Critical Text of the New Testament (NASB28 & UBS5) but also the Majority Text, especially "the Patriarchal Text of the Greek Orthodox church from 1904". This translation is by the American Eastern Orthodox scholar and writer David Bentley Hart. Hart translates Christos as "Anointed" and Ioudaios as "Judaean" rather than as "Jew". In 2019, the first edition of Hart's translation was the subject of a session of the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature with three of the presented papers being subsequently published in The Bible Translator. The Open English Bible New Testament Modern English In Progress (2010) Twentieth Century New Testament (English), Wescott-Hort (Greek), Leningrad Codex (Hebrew) 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. Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible (JST) Modern English 1844 Revision of the King James Version Also called the "Inspired Version" (IV) by Latter Day SaintsTorah and Former Prophets, translated by William WhittTanakh (Hebrew Bible)Modern English2018–2025Masoretic Text (with special focus on the Aleppo Codex)Organizes the text by the Masoretic section divisions (parashot) rather than the traditional Christian chapter divisions. All nine books have been published: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings; all are open access and accessible at https://archive.org. Weymouth New Testament New Testament Modern English 1903 The Resultant Greek Testament. Twentieth Century New Testament New Testament Modern English 1904 Greek text of Westcott and Hort. The Unvarnished New Testament New Testament Modern English 1991 Wuest Expanded Translation New Testament Modern English 1961 Nestle-Aland Text
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