1877 - The Englishman's Greek New Testament,
giving the Greek Text of Stephens 1550, with the various Readings of the
Editions of Elzevir 1624, Griesbach, Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford,
and Wordsworth, together with an interlinear literal Translation, and the
Authorized version of 1611.
London: Samuel Bagster, 1877. 3rd ed. 1896.
Reprinted by Zondervan in 1970.
This interlinear uses the text of Robert Estienne (Stephens) 1550, and
gives the text of the King James version in a parallel column. Newberry gives
in the lower margin of each page a complete collation of six critical editions.
Most of the variants which make a difference in translation are also given in
English.
Because of the critical apparatus, it is the best interlinear New Testament.
It does not give information on the three most important critical texts of our
century: Nestle 1898, Westcott and Hort 1881, and Aland, Black, Metzger, Wikren
and Martini 1975. Most of the readings adopted in these three texts are however
represented in the apparatus as the readings of earlier editors.
1897 - An American version by George Ricker
Berry, The Interlinear literal Translation of the Greek New Testament with the
Authorized Version conveniently presented in the margins for ready reference
and with the various readings of the editions of Elzevir 1624, Griesbach,
Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, and Wordsworth, to which has been
added a new Greek-English New Testament Lexicon, supplemented by a chapter
elucidating the synonyms of the New Testament, with a complete index to the
synonyms.
New York: Hinds & Noble, 1897. Reprinted by Zondervan from 1967 to 1992 as
The Interlinear Greek-English New Testament with Lexicon and Synonyms, and in
1995 as The Interlinear KJV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English, Based
on the Majority Text, with Lexicon and Synonyms.
This interlinear is simply an American reprint of the Bagster edition prepared by Thomas Newberry (1877) with a different Introduction and with G.R. Berry's Lexicon and Synonyms added to the end.
1886 - The Englishman's Bible. London:
Hodder and Stoughton. 6 vols.
Reprinted in 1960 as The Newberry Study Bible by Kregel
Publications, Grand Rapids. 2 vols.
In this annotated edition of the King James version, Newberry's lower margin gives the readings of many old manuscripts in English, without citation of editors. The readings are taken from Stuart 1861. A later manual edition of Newberry's work (1893) abridges these notes somewhat arbitrarily, but adds to them citations of the critical editions. The Kregel reprint of 1960 has a Foreword by Prof. F.F. Bruce (University of Manchester) in which he gives the following information: "Thomas Newberry, the editor of The Newberry Study Bible, was born in 1811 and died in 1901. For most of his life he belonged to the Open wing of the Brethren movement. He resided for many years at Weston-super-Mare, England, and from there he exercised a long and fruitful expository ministry, both oral and written. He was a careful student of the Bible in Hebrew and Greek. Evidence of his minute attention to the sacred text lies before me as I write, in a beautiful copy of Tischendorf's transcription of the New Testament according to the Codex Sinaiticus, presented to him by friends in London in 1863, which is annotated throughout in his neat handwriting. It was after twenty-five years devoted to such study that he conceived the plan of putting its fruits at the disposal of his fellow-Christians in The Newberry Study Bible."
1890 - The Englishman's Hebrew Bible - Samuel Bagster and Sons, London.
1893 - The English-Greek Testament -
Hodder & Stoughton, London.
The above two were reprinted by Kregel Publications in 1973 and 1977 in
one volume as The Newberry Reference Bible Portable Edition.
Newberry gives in English, at the foot of each page, many of the important various readings of the critical texts published by scholars of the nineteenth century (Westcott and Hort not included), with citations of the supporting manuscripts. These notes are however rather sporadic and somewhat arbitrary. The book of Revelation receives much fuller treatment than the others, and the epistles get very few notes. In the side margins he suggests alternative literal renderings when the King James version is less than perfectly literal. The text is a paragraphed King James Version without the translators' original marginal notes. A different edition by Newberry, The Englishman's Bible (see Newberry 1886), gives many more various readings, but cites only the manuscripts.
1960 - The Newberry Study Bible by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids. 2 vols. Reprint of 1886.
1973, 1977 - The Newberry Reference Bible Portable Edition, by Kregel Publications. Reprint of 1893.
1998 - "The Englishman's Bible" published by Penfold Book and Bible House, Bicester, England. Reprinted from the single column, large type handy reference edition. Click here for a sample page.
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