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Helen Barrett Montgomery

In 1924 she was the first woman to publish a translation of the New Testament from the original Greek.

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In 1893 she helped found a chapter of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union in Rochester, and served as president until 1911, nearly two decades.

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(Later she would write and publish a translation of the New Testament.) She taught in Rochester and then at the Wellesley Preparatory School in Philadelphia.

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In 1893, she joined with Susan B. Anthony, the activist for civil rights who was nearly 40 years older, in forming a new chapter of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) in Rochester.

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When she used the Weymouth New Testament (1903), they understood it much better but she was still not satisfied.

Unvarnished New Testament

English-speaking Christians such as Helen Barrett Montgomery, Clarence Jordan, Olaf M. Norlie, Kenneth N. Taylor, Jay P. Green and Richard Francis Weymouth have long expressed dissatisfaction with older, archaic-sounding Bible translations.

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