The Great Bible Review

Bible translations excluded from this review

Significantly shortened versions of the Bible text, such as many children’s Bibles, are not included in this review. The Bible translation must contain approximately the whole text of every book of the New Testament or the Tanakh (Old Testament).

Some verses can be missing here and there, but not more than 10 % of the whole Bible text, and not more than 50 % of any book in the Bible. Casually rewritten paraphrases are included in the review, if they are based on the full text of the Bible. If a translation contains the complete New Testament, but only some parts of the Tanakh (typically the Psalms), only the New Testament is included in this review, and all verses of the partially translated Tanakh are excluded from the review.

Privately published revisions of old Bible translations, which are in the public domain (most often KJV1769 or YLT1898), are usually included in this review, even if the revision is as small as changing the name of God or the name of Messiah only.

Such Bibles are not included in the review, in which the actual Bible text is one of the reviewed translations, and the specialty of this Bible product are commentaries, pictures or other additional material outside of the Bible text.

Below are only some examples of the many Bible products, which are excluded from this review for the aforementioned reasons.

Projects marked with an asterisk * have the Tanakh or New Testament in this review, but the rest of the Bible will apparently not be completed ever.

Partial translations, which will probably never be completed:

CONSERB * — Conservative Bible, by Conservative Bible Project (2015) [The translation of OT does not seem to be progressing at all.] Wikidot Website

Cotton Patch Version, by Clarence Jordan (1970) [At least Mark and Revelation are missing from this series.] Wikidot

Disciples of Yeshuwa’ Mashiyach Translation (2010 - 2013) [9 books of NT and some verses of OT.] Website

Ethiopian Orthodox Bible Project (2014 - 2017) [This apparently abandoned project focused on the translation of non-canonical books only.] Website

Fusion English Version, by Daniel Harder (2015) [This project will apparently never be completed.] Wikidot Website

Golden Rule Bible, by Robert Gagnon (2013) [10 books of NT in 2013, no progress since then.] Wikidot

Greek - English Diglot for the use of Translators, by William McHardy (1964) [British and Foreign Bible Society discontinued this series, when 18 books of the New Testament had been published.] Wikidot

Holy Bible, or the Books Accounted Sacred by Jews and Christians, by Alexander Geddes (1797) [Geddes died before completing the OT.] Wikidot

Human Instruction Manual, by The Nazarite Site [The project was announced 2011, no progress can be witnessed since then.] Website

LJV Tanakh (2016) [Not completed.] Link 1 Link 2 Link 3

Metsudah: A New Linear Translation, by Avraham Davis (ca. 1994 - 2006) [It seems that not all books of the Tanakh are included.] Ebay

Modernized Tanakh, by Adam Cohn (2013) [Not completed.] Website

MorningStar Vision Bible, by Rick Joyner (2013 - 2015) [The book of Revelation has not been published in this series.] Website

One Unity Resource Bible (2016) [Not completed.] eBible

Original-Thought Sacred-Scriptures Æast-West Version / Phayshe’ool’t-Targum Trans-Literation and Restoration Project (2011) [7 books of NT in 2011, no progress since then.] Hunter Website 1 Website 2

PFRS Translation, by Pristine Faith Restoration Society [Three books of NT 2005-2010, no progress since then.] Website

Plain English Version / Plain English Bible (2019) [Many chapters are missing in OT and NT.] eBible Bible Google Aboriginal

Princess Diana Bible, by Max Mitchell (2008) [The planned publication of this Bible version in 2009 may have been cancelled. The text samples seem to be so heavily abridged that this version would not have qualified for the review in any case.] Website Guardian

Renewed Covenant for the House of Israel and the House of Judah / Scriptures for the Whole House of Israel, by Stephen Zimmerman (2002 - 2006, incomplete NT. It is unclear if Tanakh is complete or not.) Archive Website

Schocken Bible, by Everett Fox (2000 - 2014) [It seems that there are no plans to include all books of the Tanakh.] Penguin Amazon

Scriptures Hebrew and Christian / SHC / SHAC, by Edward Bartlett & John Peters (1893) [The Bible texts are heavily reorganized. NT does not include 2-3 John, and OT does not seem to include every psalm, for example.] Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3

SPROPHE * = Spirit of Prophecy Version / SPV, by Jeffrey Ho (NT and 8 books of OT in 2021, no progress since then.) Website

SRJ Translation, by Shane Johnson (2013) [Not completed.] Wikidot Website

The Word: a literal Bible translation, by Mark Spitsbergen (at least some work on nearly the whole NT and most of Tanakh 2010-2012, no progress since then) Website

Totally Free Bible Version, by Henry Neufeld (40 % of NT 2005-2007, no progress since then) Website

Translator’s Old Testament / TROT, by British and Foreign Bible Society (ca. 1970 - 1993 ?) [It is unclear, whether all books of the Tanakh were published in this series.] Catalogue (see page 11) ISBN

Tyndale21 New Testament, by Abbott ePublishing (2011) [The gospels and 7 shortest letters of NT were ready in 2011. No progress since then.] Website Sample chapters

Yahweh’s Sword, by David Roberts (10 books of Tanakh and some apocrypha 2005 - 2015, no progress since then) Website

Translations that are heavily shortened, or do not include all canonical books, or only add a commentary to the text of another translation:

ActorsBible, by Inner-City Movement Inc. (2017 -, in progress) [The four gospels are combined into one chronological story.] website

Alternate Translation, by Sheila Vitale (2014) [Nearly complete OT and NT, both of these missing only a few books.] OT NT

The Apostles Teaching, by Aaron Fochtman (2021) [The four gospels are combined into one.] Amazon

Arian Christian Bible, by Institute for Metaphysical Studies (2010) [The gospel of Yohanan is omitted completely. Also in other places the text is sometimes shortened heavily.] Hunter Amazon

Bible: Queen Jamie Version (2005) [The website regender.com, created by Ka-Ping Yee in 2005, has a text processing engine that switches the genders in any given text: man becomes woman, she becomes he, Matthew becomes Mary, and so on. To demonstrate its features, regender.com gives a link to three websites with large amounts of text, which the users can experiment with: Google News, Wikipedia News, and King James Version of the Bible. When processed through this engine, King James Version gets renamed as Queen Jamie Version, and "Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham" becomes "Jessica Christ, the daughter of Davida, the daughter of Abigail". Regender.com has never hosted any Bible text, and nobody has probably ever processed the entire Bible with their engine.] Review Website

Book of Life, by Zedekiah Copp (1939) [The four gospels are integrated as one story. It is unclear, if verses with duplicate information have been omitted or not.] Wikidot

Christ Emphasis New Testament, by Edward Craddock (1967) [Standard KJV, with words referring to Yeshua printed in ALL CAPS.] Wikidot

Christian Bible Integrated Version Interpreted Edition, by Carl Austin (1978) [The four gospels are combined as one story.] Wikidot

Clear Preferred Version: Life & Teachings of Y’shua Messiah, by Don Stanton (2007) [Four gospels combined as one story, no other books of the Bible.] Website

Critical English New Testament: Authorised Version and the Results of the Criticism, by Samuel Bagster and Sons (1871) [Apparently the AV text with commentary in footnotes.] Wikidot

Critical English Testament, by William Blackley (1877) [A commentary of the Bible text.] Archive 1 Archive 2 Archive 3

Defined King James Bible, by D.A. Waite (2007) [KJV1769 text with commentary in footnotes.] Wikidot

Family expositor: A paraphrase and version of the New Testament, by Philip Doddridge (1807) [The four gospels are combined as one story. No other parts of NT are included.] Archive

Genderless God Bible (2008) [Includes 4 books of OT and 5 books of NT.] Website Shop

Greek Testament Englished: Annotated, by William Crickmer (1881) [Contains the four gospels and Acts only.] Wikidot Google

High-Definition King James Version of the New Testament, by Ted Rouse (2012) [The main Bible text is KJV, the author has added dictionary definitions of some words.] Wikidot

Holy Aramaic Scriptures (2021) [The book of Revelation is not included: maybe it is not included in the aramaic manuscripts that they use?] Website

Jewish Bible for Family Reading, by Joseph Gaer (1957) [The text is heavily shortened.] Wikipedia

Mature New Testament (ca. 1960’s) [NT without the gospels.] Wikidot

New Analytical Bible, by John Dickson (1941) [AV text, with ARV variants in brackets.] Wikidot

New Testament Emphasized, by Horace Morrow (1897) [The main Bible text is apparently unedited KJV, with many accent marks, boldings and italics decided by the author.] Wikidot Archive

New Testament Expounded and Illustrated, by Clement Moody (1852) [Apparently a commentary only, and the main Bible text is KJV.] Wikidot Archive

New Testament: Various Readings from the Three Most Celebrated Manuscripts, by Constantine Tischendorf (1869) [The main Bible text is apparently unedited AV, with a commentary by the author.] Wikidot

Newberry Study Bible, by Thomas Newberry (1890) [Apparently a commentary only, and the main Bible text is KJV.] Wikidot Archive

Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament, by Daniel Whitby (1703) [The book of Revelation is not included.] Wikidot

Paraphrase on the New Testament, by Richard Baxter (1699) [Apparently a commentary only, and the main Bible text is some well-known translation.] Wikidot Archive

People’s New Testament, by Barton Johnson (1889) Archive 1 Archive 2 Amazon (3) Logos (7)

Pure Cambridge Edition of 1769, by Jason Barlow (2012) [Fully or nearly identical with some other revised KJV edition.] Lulu

Pure Cambridge Edition of 1900, by Matthew Verschuur (2007) [Fully or nearly identical with some other revised KJV edition.] Website

Second Advent Christian Bible, by Stephen Simons (2006) [Some Tanakh books and majority of NT books are not included.] Website Amazon (30)

Self-Interpreting New Testament / SINT, by Ashley Johnson (1898) [This seems to be KJV 1769, with additional commentary that is clearly separated from the actual Bible text.] Wikidot Website Archive 1 Archive 2

The Word Made Fresh, by Andrew (Andy) Edington (1998) [The text is heavily shortened.] Archive (OT 1) Archive (OT 2) Amazon (NT)

Y’allVersion (2015 -) [A website that contains many popular Bible translations, and allows the user to choose how to display the plural of "you", which is normally similar to singular in english.] Website

Not a Bible, something completely else:

These books are not versions of the canonical Bible. The contents are very unusual theological or historical claims, which have no connection to the traditional Bible texts, not even as very freely rewritten paraphrases. Products like these make one wish that “the Bible” were a legally protected historical name (just like many geographical place names are), which can be used in the title of a book only if its main contents are based on the text of the canonical Holy Bible.

Holy Bible.New: Second Edition / Heavenly Holy Bible, by Yu Chun Zhong (2018) Bible Hunter Website 1 Website 2 Facebook 1 Facebook 2 PDF

OAHSPE: a new Bible in the words of Jehovih and his angel embassadors, by John Newbrough (1882) Wikipedia Archive