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New Testament
Title: Letters to Young Churches A translation of the New Testament Epistles by J. B. Phillips
Date: 1947
Publisher: G. Bles: London
Contents: New Testament Epistles
Images: Jacket, Title page (from a 1954 American Edition)
References: Chamberlin 580-3; Herbert 2292, Hills 2473, Taliaferro-EELBV 7965.090.
Comments: The first American edition was published in 1948 by The Macmillan Company, New York.
Title: The Gospels in Modern English Translated by J. B. Phillips
Date: 1952
Publisher: G. Bles: London
Contents: Gospels
Images: Cover, Title page (from a 1957 paperback edition)
References: Chamberlin 580-3; Herbert 2292, Hills 2473, Taliaferro-EELBV 7965.091.
Comments: The first American edition was published in 1953 by The Macmillan Company, New York.
Title: The Young Church in Action A Translation of the Acts of the Apostles by J. B. Phillips
Date: 1955
Publisher: G. Bles: London
Contents: Acts
Images: Cover, Title page (from a 1961 paperback edition)
References: Chamberlin 580-3; Herbert 2292, Hills 2473, Taliaferro-EELBV 7965.092
Comments: The first American edition was published in 1955 by The Macmillan Company, New York.
Title: The Book of Revelation A new translation of the Apocalypse by J. B. Phillips
Date: 1957
Publisher: G. Bles: London
Contents: Revelation
Images: Jacket, Title page (from the 1957 First American edition)
References: Chamberlin 580-3; Herbert 2292, Hills 2473, Taliaferro-EELBV 7965.094
Comments: The first American edition was published in 1957 by The Macmillan Company, New York.
Title: The New Testament in Modern English Translated by J.B. Phillips
Date: 1958
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Contents: New Testament
Images: Jacket, Title page (from the 1958 First edition)
References: Chamberlin 580-3; Herbert 2292, Hills 2473, Taliaferro-EELBV 7965.100.
Comments: The first British edition was published in 1958 by G. Bles: London about two weeks after the American edition.
Student Edition
Title: The New Testament in Modern English Student Edition
Translator: J.B. Phillips
Date: 1965
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Contents: New Testament
Images:
References: Chamberlin 580-3; Herbert 2292, Hills 2473
Revised Student Edition
Title: The New Testament in Modern English Revised Student Edition
Translator: J.B. Phillips
Date: ©1958, 1960, 1972 by J.B. Phillips
Publisher: New York: Touchstone
Contents: New Testament
Images: Jacket, Jacket back, Title
Location: Personal library, Havelock, North Carolina, USA
References: Taliaferro-EELBV 7965.120
Comments: Phillips used the 1966 United Bible Societies Greek New Testament to revise the translation in 1972. This is the student edition that has verse numbers in the margins.
Old Testament
Title: Four Prophets Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Micah A Modern Translation from the Hebrew by J. B. Phillips
Date: 1963
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Contents: Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah
Images: Jacket, Title page
References: Chamberlin 435-5; Herbert see 2292, Hills see 2473
Facsimile: A PDF Facsimile is available at archive.org.
