Bible (Fenton) NT 03, 05: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: Luke, Acts
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The "Bible (Fenton) NT 03, 05: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: Luke, Acts" is a translation of the Bible into modern English by Ferrar Fenton, a London businessman who began working on it in 1853. It was first published in 1903, with some parts being published separately in the preceding 11 years. One notable feature of this translation is the rearranging of the books of the Bible into what Fenton believed to be the correct chronological order. In the Old Testament, the order follows that of the Hebrew Bible. Fenton also translated the name of God throughout the Old Testament as "The Ever-Living". The translation is described as being directly from the original Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek languages. Fenton collaborated with Henrik Borgström for the translation of the Book of Job, which was rendered in the same meter as the original Hebrew. For the New Testament, Fenton's translation is based on the
