New Testament

The Radiate New Testament is an accessible contemporary-English rendering of the New Testament published by Biblica, and is treated here as a distinct translation work rather than a revision of an earlier version. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from the Greek, and it follows a functional, contemporary translation philosophy — that is, one that favours the natural idiom of present-day English over close reproduction of the underlying sentence structures. Such approaches belong to a long line of English renderings aimed at readers encountering the Christian scriptures for the first time or outside formal liturgical settings, a strand of publishing that grew markedly in the twentieth century alongside more literal traditions. Biblica, itself a long-established Bible translation and distribution agency, has issued a number of English versions. Within this catalogue the Radiate New Testament is included as a completeness backstop for coverage of English translation and revision families.