Weymouth New Testament (1903) Details

About the ‘Wymth’

Weymouth New Testament (1903). Also known as “The New Testament in Modern Speech” or “The Modern Speech New Testament”.

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Thanks to Richard Weymouth for his work 120 years ago to bring English Bible translations back to the modern English of the time—the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th. (Our own Open English Translation continues this concept, but now into the 21st century.)

Notes

Richard Francis Weymouth, a language scholar and former headmaster, translated the New Testament into the natural English of his own day. He worked from his own Resultant Greek Testament, which brought together readings favoured by leading editors of the Greek text. His aim was to convey the writers’ meaning clearly and provide a companion for study alongside established English versions. After Weymouth’s death in 1902, Ernest Hampden-Cook edited and partly revised the manuscript for its first publication in 1903. See Weymouth’s preface and a biographical account.

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