One of the two most popular modern English versions of the New Testament was issued 20 years ago by Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed of the University of Chicago.* Although some 500,000 copies have been sold, this is a drop-in-the-bucket figure compared to the sales of the 300-year-old King James version.
To catch some of these readers, Goodspeed last week issued The Goodspeed Parallel New Testament (University of Chicago Press; $2), in which his version and the King James are printed in parallel columns.
Says Goodspeed: "What the modern reader most wants of the New Testament...
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