{"id":99578,"date":"2026-06-05T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?page_id=99578"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:54:35","slug":"victorian-king-james-version-of-the-new-testament-a-selection-for-lovers-of-elizabethan-and-victorian-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/books-by-dave-armstrong\/victorian-king-james-version-of-the-new-testament-a-selection-for-lovers-of-elizabethan-and-victorian-literature","title":{"rendered":"Victorian King James Version of the New Testament: A \u201cSelection\u201d for Lovers of Elizabethan and Victorian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
\u2190 All Books by Dave Armstrong<\/a> \u00a0\/\u00a0 Bible Reference Works<\/span><\/div>\n
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Victorian King James Version of the New Testament: A \u201cSelection\u201d for Lovers of Elizabethan and Victorian Literature<\/div>\n
Dave Armstrong \u00a0\u00b7\u00a0 July 2014, 590 pages<\/div>\n
ePub \u2014 $9.99<\/a>Buy in Print \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n
print & e-book purchases support Dave\u2019s full-time apologetics work<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ABOUT THIS BOOK<\/div>\n
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A *Bible for lovers of great English literature.* Dave Armstrong\u2019s verse-by-verse selection from six public-domain translations \u2014 KJV, Rheims, Young\u2019s Literal, Weymouth, Twentieth Century, and Moffatt \u2014 preserves the grandeur of 1611 and the Victorian high style while shedding the archaisms that trip modern readers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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DEDICATION<\/div>\n
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Introduction [read online<\/a>; it runs 12 pages]<\/p>\n

\nContinue reading (34 more)<\/summary>\n
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Bibliographical Source Information [read below]<\/p>\n

Matthew [read 5:17-19<\/a> on Facebook] [read ch. 16 + comparison to KJV<\/a> on Facebook]<\/p>\n

Mark [read online in its entirety<\/a>; also source analysis for chapters 1-4]<\/p>\n

Luke [read chapter 2<\/a> with comparison to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

John [read chapter 1<\/a> on Facebook; also 5:17-19<\/a> on Facebook]<\/p>\n

Acts [read chapter 1<\/a> and chapter 15<\/a>, with comparisons to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

Romans [read 1:18-25<\/a>, chapter 5<\/a>, and chapter 8<\/a>, with comparisons to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians [read 7:36-38 and commentary<\/a> on Facebook]<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians [read chapter 11<\/a> with comparison to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

Galatians<\/p>\n

Ephesians [read chapter 1<\/a> on Facebook]<\/p>\n

Philippians [read online<\/a>; includes source analysis and illustration of method, using 3:21]<\/p>\n

Colossians<\/p>\n

1 Thessalonians<\/p>\n

2 Thessalonians [read comparison of 2:4-7<\/a> to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

1 Timothy [read chapter 1<\/a> with comparison to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

2 Timothy<\/p>\n

Titus<\/p>\n

Philemon<\/p>\n

Hebrews [read chapter 10<\/a> with comparison to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

James [read chapter 1<\/a> on Facebook]<\/p>\n

1 Peter<\/p>\n

2 Peter<\/p>\n

1 John [read chapters 1 and 2<\/a> on Facebook]<\/p>\n

2 John<\/p>\n

3 John<\/p>\n

Jude<\/p>\n

Revelation [read chapter 4 <\/a>and chapter 12<\/a>, with comparisons to KJV, on Facebook]<\/p>\n

Bibliographical Source Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rheims New Testament<\/i>, published by the English College at Rheims; principally translated by Fr. Gregory Martin, with assistance from four other men, 1582. Revised by Bishop Richard Challoner: 1750. Public domain. Available online: http:\/\/www.drbo.org\/<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n

Authorised \u201cKing James\u201d Version<\/em>, \u201ctranslated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised,\u201d 1611. It was translated by 47 men from the Church of England (just one person a layman). Revised for the \u201cCambridge edition\u201d in 1760 by Francis Sawyer Parris, and again by Benjamin Blayney for a 1769 Oxford version. Public domain. Available online: http:\/\/thebiblecorner.com\/englishbibles\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Young, Young\u2019s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible<\/em> (Edinburgh: George Adam Young & Co., 1862; revised by the author in 1887 and again by the publisher in 1898). Public domain. Available online: http:\/\/thebiblecorner.com\/englishbibles\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Francis Weymouth, The Modern Speech New Testament<\/em> (London: James Clarke & Co \/ New York: Baker and Taylor Company, 1903). Public domain. Available online: http:\/\/thebiblecorner.com\/englishbibles\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Twentieth Century New Testament<\/em> (Revised edition: London: Horace Marshall & Son \/ New York and Chicago: The Fleming H. Revell Company, 1904). Translated by 20 non-scholars, all fluent in koine<\/em> Greek; eventually advised by the scholars J. Rendel Harris and Richard Francis Weymouth. Public domain. Available online: http:\/\/thebiblecorner.com\/englishbibles\/<\/a><\/p>\n

James Moffatt, A New Translation of the Bible<\/em> (New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, revised and final edition, 1935; New Testament: primarily 1922 with later minor revisions). Public domain. Available online: http:\/\/studybible.info\/version\/Moffatt<\/a><\/p>\n

Front cover bottom photograph: Preface from a 1613 printing of the Authorised Version (London: Robert Barker); Courtesy of King James Bible Online<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Front cover top photograph: Revelation 21:4, from the \u201cpen facsimile\u201d Folger copy of the 1611 King James Bible; from the Manifold Greatness Blog<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Back cover photograph: The title page \/ frontispiece to the 1611 first edition of the Authorized Version Bible (London: Robert Barker) by Cornelis Boel. It shows the Apostles Peter and Paul seated centrally above the central text, which is flanked by Moses and Aaron. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. The rest of the Apostles (with Judas facing away) stand around Peter and Paul. At the very top is the Tetragrammaton, above the Holy Spirit (as a dove). Public domain file available from Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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