James Moffatt
James Moffatt was a Scottish theologian and graduate of the University of Glasgow.
Moffatt trained at the Free Church College, Glasgow, and was a practising minister at the United Free Church in Dundonald in the early years of his career. He received the degree Doctor of Divinity from the University of St Andrews in April 1902.
In 1911, he was appointed Professor of Greek and New Testament Exegesis at Mansfield College, Oxford, but he returned to Glasgow in 1915 as Professor of Church History at the United Free Church College. From 1927 to 1939, he was Washburn Professor of Church History at the Union Theological Seminary, New York. In addition, he translated a Modern English Bible translation, the Moffatt, New Translation.
Translation of Bible
His New Translation of the New Testament was first published in 1913. His New Translation of the Old Testament, in two volumes, was first published in 1924. The Complete Moffatt Bible in one volume was first published in 1926. It was completely revised and reset in 1935. A Shorter Version of the Moffatt Translation of the Bible was first published in 1941.
The Moffatt New Testament Commentary, based on his translation, has 17 volumes. The first volume was published in 1928, the final volume in 1949. The concordance of the complete Bible was first published in 1949.
Works
The Historical New Testament: Being the Literature of the New Testament Arranged in the Order of its Literary Growth and According to the Dates of the Documents, 1901The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, 1904Literary Illustrations of the Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes, 1905Literary Illustrations of the Bible: The Gospel of Saint Mark, 1905Literary Illustrations of the Bible: The Epistle to the Romans, 1905Literary Illustrations of the Bible: The Book of Revelation, 1905Literary Illustrations of the Bible: The Gospel of Saint Luke, 1906Literary Illustrations of the Bible: The Books of Judges and Ruth, 1906The Literal Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount, 1904 The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, v. 1–3 by Adolf Harnack. Translated by James Moffatt Paul and Jesus, 1908George Meredith: Introduction to His Novels, 1909The Life of John Owen, 1910?Paul and Paulinism, 1910The Second Things of Life, 1910The Expositor’s Dictionary of Texts, vol. 1: Genesis to the Gospel of St. Mark, 1910The Expositor’s Dictionary of Texts, vol. 2: The Gospel of St. Luke to Revelation, 1911Reasons and reasons, 1911An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament, 1911The Theology of the Gospels, 1912The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations, 1913The Moffatt Translation of the New Testament, 1913A Book of Biblical Devotions for Members of the Scottish Church, 1919The Approach to the New Testament, 1921The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Jesus, 1921 Jesus on Love to God, Jesus on Love to Man, 1922The Moffatt Translation of the Old Testament, 1924The Bible in Scots Literature, 1924The Tree of Healing. Short Studies in the Message of the Cross, 1925The Presbyterian Churches, 1928Love in the New Testament, 1929The Moffatt New Testament Commentary on the Bible V.1, 1929The Day Before Yesterday, 1930Grace in the New Testament, 1932He and She: A Book of Them, 1933His Gifts & Promises: Being Twenty-Five Reflections and Directions on Phases of our Christian Discipline, From the Inside., 1934Handbook to the Church Hymnary, with Supplement, 1935The Ideas Behind the Moffatt Bible: Compiled from the Introduction to the Moffatt Bible, 1935The Second Book of He and She: Another Book of Them, 1935An Approach to Ignatius, 1936The First Five Centuries of the Church, 1938Jesus Christ the Same; The Shaffer Lectures for 1940 in the Divinity School of Yale University, 1940The Thrill of Tradition, 1944Concordance of The Moffatt Translation of the Bible, 1949