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| Preface | |
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| Ancient Versions | |
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| Ancient Versions of the Old Testmament Made for the Use of Jews | |
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| The Septuagint | |
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| The Jewish Targums | |
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| Ancient Versions Intended Chiefly for Christians | |
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| The Syriac Versions | |
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| The Latin Versions | |
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| The Coptic Versions | |
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| The Gothic Version | |
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| The Armenian Version | |
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| The Georgian Version | |
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| The Ethiopic Version | |
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| The Arabic Versions | |
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| The Sogdian Version | |
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| The Old Church Slavonic Version | |
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| The Nubian Version | |
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| English Versions | |
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| English Bibles before the King James Version | |
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| The Beginnings of the English Bible | |
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| The Wycliffite Bible (1382; 1388) | |
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| Tyndale and the First Printed English New Testament (1526) | |
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| Coverdale and the First Complete Printed Bible in English (1535) | |
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| Matthew's Bible (1537) | |
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| Taverner's Bible (1539) | |
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| The Great Bible (1539) | |
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| Edmund Becke's Bibles (1549; 1551) | |
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| The Geneva Bible (1560) | |
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| The Bishops' Bible (1568) | |
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| The Rheims-Douay Bible (1582-1610) | |
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| The King James Bible (1611) | |
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| Between the King James Bible and the Revised Version | |
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| Edward Harwood's New Testament (1768) | |
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| Charles Thomson's Bible (1808) | |
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| Noah Webster's Bible (1833) | |
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| Julia E. Smith's Bible (1876) | |
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| The British Revised Version (1881-85) and the American Standard Version (1901) | |
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| Early Modern-Speech Versions | |
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| The Twentieth Century New Testament (1901; 1904) | |
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| Weymouth's New Testament in Modern Speech (1903) | |
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| Moffatt's Translation of the Bible (1913; 1924-25) | |
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| Smith and Goodspeed's American Translation (1923; 1927) | |
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| The Revised Standard Version (1952) | |
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| The Jerusalem Bible (1966) | |
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| The New American Bible (1970) | |
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| The New English Bible (1970) | |
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| The New International Version (1978) | |
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| Jewish Translations | |
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| Translations Sponsored by the Jewish Publication Society (1917; 1985) | |
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| Heinz W. Cassirer's New Testament (1989) | |
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| David H. Stern's Complete Jewish Bible (1998) | |
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| Revision after Revision | |
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| The New American Standard Bible (1971; updated ed. 1995) | |
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| The New Jerusalem Bible (1985) | |
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| Revised New Testament, New American Bible (1986) | |
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| The Revised English Bible (1989) | |
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| The New Revised Standard Version (1990) | |
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| Simplified, Easy-to-Read Versions | |
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| The Basic English Bible (1949) | |
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| J. B. Phillips's Version (1958; rev. ed. 1972) | |
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| The Good News Bible (Today's English Version) (1976) | |
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| The Reader's Digest Bible (1982) | |
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| The Contemporary English Version (1995) | |
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| New International Reader's Version (1996) | |
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| Paraphrases of the English Bible | |
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| Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations (1653) | |
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| Philip Doddridge's Family Expositor (1739-56) | |
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| F. F. Bruce's Expanded Paraphrase of the Epistles of Paul (1965) | |
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| Kenneth Taylor's Living Bible, Paraphrased (NT 1967; entire Bible 1971) | |
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| Eugene Peterson's The Message (NT 1993; OT Wisdom books 1997; OT Prophets 2000) | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Scripture Index | |