The English Bible Family Tree

Essentially Literal Translation

Bede's John 735 Dynamic Equivalence Translation

Alfred the Great's Bible (not complete) 901 Paraphrase

Wycliffe Bible (from Vulgate)1384

Tyndale Bible (translated from Erasmus' Greek text) 1526

Matthew's Bible Coverdale Bible 1538 (translated from Latin & German Bibles) 1535

Great Bible Taverner Bible (translated from 1539 Latin) 1539

Geneva Bible Bishop's Bible (translated from Latin) 1557 1568 Rheims-Douai Bible (translated from Latin) 1582 Catholic Bible King James Version (KJV) 1611 Challoner's Bible 1749 Catholic Bible

Revised Version (RV) 1881 American Standard Version (ASV) 1901

Scofield Bible 1909 Confraternity NT Knox Bible (Independant Translations) 1941 Catholic Bible 1944 Catholic Bible

Moffat Bible 1924

Today's English Version (TEV) Revised Standard (aka Good News Bible) 1966 Version (RSV) 1952 Smith/Goodspeed Bible 1927 New American Jerusalem Bible (JB) Standard Bible (NASB) (derived from French 1960 Modern King James Version 1962 translation of the Vulgate) 1966 Catholic Bible Berkley Bible 1959

Amplified Bible (AB) New English Bible (NEB) New American Bible (NAB) 1965 1970 1970 Catholic Bible Barclay NT Living Bible (LB) 1969 1971 Literal Translation (LITV) New International Version (Green) 1976 (NIV) 1978 New King James Phillips NT Version (NKJV) 1982 Reader's Digest Condensed New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) 1972 Bible (RDB) 1985 Catholic Bible 1982

International Children's Revised English Bible New Revised Standard Bible (ICV) (REB) 1989 Version (NRSV) 1989 1986 Contemporary English Version (CEV) 1995 The Message New Century Version (NCV) 1993 New Living Translation 1991 (NLT) 1996

Holman Christian Standard Bible English Standard (HCSB) Version (ESV) 2001 2000 Today's New International Version (TNIV) 2002