Jewish New Testament

The Jewish New Testament is an influential attempt to foreground the Jewish setting of the New Testament through its choice of terminology and names. Covering the whole of the New Testament, it works from the Greek New Testament as its base text and is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English version. Its guiding philosophy is Jewish-context idiomatic rendering: the Greek is translated using Hebrew and Jewish terminology, and among its most distinctive features is the extensive use of transliterated Hebrew terms, so that familiar names and religious vocabulary appear in forms closer to those of the first-century Jewish world. It belongs to a broader modern current of translation work concerned with recovering the Jewish milieu of the earliest Christian writings, and it has been widely noted for the way its vocabulary shapes a reader's sense of that setting.