---
title: 'Baptist Translation of the Bible'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John William Yeomans'
date: 1838-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Bible and Canon'
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Denominational Literature'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Ephesians 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/yeomans-1838-baptist-translation-of-the-bible
---

# Baptist Translation of the Bible

Surveys Tyndale’s New Testament and the 1836–37 Baptist dispute with the American Bible Society over translation policy, prompting Baptists to form the American and Foreign Bible Society for missionary translations.

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