Baruch House Publishing

Publisher of the New Matthew Bible

We remember that which we first received, and strengthen the things that are ready to die (Revelation 3:2,3)

Our goals:

  • To increase awareness and appreciation of the 1537 Matthew Bible, which contained the translations of William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
  • To publish the New Matthew Bible (“NMB”), a gentle update of the Matthew Bible.
  • To publish the lost writings of Myles Coverdale. While Tyndale’s books are readily available, Coverdale has been unjustly overlooked.

Our books:

Our small, unique line of Christian books focus on the Matthew Bible and the men who made it. We also offer a limited number of discernment books by various authors.

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Booksellers: contact us directly for bulk orders and discount information. We will give customized quotes.

The New Testament and Five Books of Moses have been published. We anticipate completion of the full NMB in 2026.

The New Matthew Bible Project:

This is the original 1549 Matthew Bible used in the New Matthew Bible Project.

The New Matthew Bible Project is dedicated to gently updating the Matthew Bible for today. The New Matthew Bible (“NMB”) will keep all the doctrine, dignity, and beauty of the original translations of William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale, with the historic language. That is one reason we call the New Matthew Bible the only “modern” Bible which is not. But it is important to recover the meaning of the original translations, which has been obscured due to linguistic changes. In 2016 the NMB New Testament was published as “The October Testament,” gently updated by editor Ruth Magnusson Davis. In the summer of 2024 we published “The Five Books of Moses”, or the Pentateuch. Work on the rest of the Old Testament is underway, and God willing, we will also complete updating the Apocrypha as it was contained in the Matthew Bible.

More information about the New Matthew Bible Project, with sample scriptures and interesting articles, is here.

The New Matthew Bible Project

Ruth Magnusson Davis:

Ruth Magnusson Davis in her study, about 2010.

Ruth Magnusson Davis is the founder of Baruch House Publishing and the New Matthew Bible Project. A Canadian, she is a retired lawyer. As a teenager she worked in France, where she learned that she loved to study language and grammar. She obtained an undergraduate degree in French and German, studying in Manitoba, Quebec, and Germany. Law school followed, and a successful professional career, before she retired to dedicate herself to the New Matthew Bible Project.

The publications of Baruch House include (in 2016) the New Testament of the New Matthew Bible, the October Testament, described above. This was followed by Ruth’s 2-volume book about the history of the Matthew Bible. Her next project was the Coverdale book series, being four facsimile editions of the best of Myles Coverdale’s books. For information about all our books, go to our store or see our Book List.

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Ruth has also published academic papers covering a variety of topics about the Matthew Bible, the early English Reformation, and more — including a defence of Martin Luther against charges of antisemitism, which reached the top 1% of all papers on the Academia platform in May 2021. See her profile at Academia.edu. If you download a paper, be sure to leave a reason when prompted. We love to hear from people!

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