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James Moffatt (1870-1944) was a theologian and graduate of Glasgow University.
Moffatt trained at the Free Church College, Glasgow and was a practising Minister before becoming Professor of Greek and New Testament Exegesis at Mansfield College, Oxford in 1911. He returned to Glasgow in 1915 as Professor of Church History at the United Free Church College. From 1927-1939 he was Washburn Professor of Church History at the Union Theological Seminary, New York.
He wrote one of the standard Modern English Bible translations:
- New Testament, 1913
- Old Testament, 1924
- Complete Moffatt Bile, 1926
- Complete Moffatt Bible, revised, 1935
- Shorter version, 1941
- Commentary (17 volumes), 1928-1949
- Concordance, 1949