Abstract
The English Revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible was initiated in 1870 and drew upon the finest scholarship of established and non-conformist clergymen. It ushered in one of the most contentious, politicized debates in the history of Bible translation, even as it finally broke the hold of the King James Version. The conflict over the revision has been known only through published sources. A seal has remained over the dynamics between the two dozen members of the committee responsible for the revision of the New Testament. The official minute book yields nothing of the textual, grammatical, and translational debates nor of the voting patterns governing decisions. This gap can now be overcome with the discovery of two of the twenty-one notebooks kept by Brooke Foss Westcott, one of the members of the committee. His detailed account of each members' arguments over almost every verse of Matthew's Gospel provides an invaluable insight into the variety and alignments of English biblical scholarship in the nineteenth century.
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