The Holy Bible in Modern English, commonly known as the Ferrar Fenton Bible, was an early translation of the Bible into English as spoken and written in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Origins

Believing the Christian faith would be lost unless a modern English version of the Bible were produced, London businessman Ferrar Fenton (1832–1920) began working on a translation of the Bible in 1853. He published his translation of Paul's epistles in 1883 and other parts of the Bible in years following. The complete Bible was first published in 1903, with revisions published in subsequent years until 1910.

Fenton spent approximately fifty years working on his translation, with the goal "to study the Bible absolutely in its original languages, to ascertain what its writers actually said and thought."

Some modern branches of British Israelism use the Ferrar Fenton translation.

See also

  • Modern English Bible translations

References

  • Destiny Publishers
  • Fenton Bible digital Fenton translation which also includes audio file for each chapter