List of English Bible translations
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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
Partial Bibles
Complete Bibles
Aramaic to English translations
Translations from Syriac to English include:
Translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito, based on the eastern text, J. W. Etheridge (1846)
John Wesley Etheridge's translation of the entire New Testament appears in The Etheridge New Testament (2013) compiled by Bruce A. Klein (has Etheridge's bracketed comments), and also in Etheridge Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament (2016) compiled by Ewan MacLeod
Murdock Translation of the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament (2015) compiled by Ewan MacLeod
The Syriac New Testament, based on the western text, James Murdock (1851)
The New Testament According to the Eastern Text.
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