Thomson's Translation
It took Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1789 and a Founding Father of the United States, 19 years to complete, and was originally published in 1808.Thomson was a Greek scholar, and before the American Revolution, he had been a teacher at several prominent schools.Thomson's translation of the entire Greek Bible, excluding the Apocrypha, was published in one thousand sets of four volumes each, the fourth volume being Thomson's translation of the New Testament in that same year.[1][2] Thomson's was the first English translation of the Septuagint published and was considered by British biblical scholars to represent the best in American scholarship.Thomson's personal copy, containing final corrections to the manuscript, is in the Philadelphia library.
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