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The New Testament in Modern English

1958 English translation of the New Testament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ7185921 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Testament in Modern English (Phi) is an English translation of the New Testament of the Bible translated by Anglican clergyman J. B. Phillips first published in 1958.

BibleGateway.com describes the translation asUp-to-date and forceful involving the reader in the dramatic events and powerful teaching of the New Testament. It brings home the message of Good News as it was first heard two thousand years ago.

This publication refers to the translation's copyright dates as 1960 and 1972.

See also

Four Prophets, a 1963 rendering by Phillips of the Books of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The New Testament in Modern English” is 1958 English translation of the New Testament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Testament, Modern and English, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1960, 1972, 1963—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Testament, Modern and English is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The New Testament in Modern English” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.