Edgar Johnson Goodspeed: American Moffatt Or American Monkey‪?‬

The publication of The New Testament: An American Translation "did not happen in a corner" (Acts 26:26 AT). (1) The translator, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, had already established himself as a well-known scholar; the University of Chicago Press advertised the publication of the translation and entered into agreements for it to be serially published in various newspapers around the United States and Canada. (2) An editorialist for a major paper writer immediately took up the defense of the King James Version and castigated Goodspeed in a piece entitled "Monkeying with the Bible." (3) For other people, this translation came to be likened to the already well-known translation by James Moffat. (4)