Restored New Testament

The Restored New Testament is an independent, literary translation of the New Testament, rendered from the Greek on the basis of the Greek New Testament, the language in which the earliest Christian writings circulated. Its distinguishing aim is the restoration of many Semitic names in place of their long-familiar Hellenized and Latinized forms, a practice intended to underscore the Jewish setting in which early Christianity took shape. The guiding philosophy is at once literary, name-restoring, and historically contextual, and the work is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English version. Its scope extends beyond the canonical books to selected related texts, so that the volume also includes noncanonical materials; the translation of the canonical New Testament within it nonetheless remains distinct and complete. It belongs to the broader modern tradition of independent, single-translator English versions prepared outside denominational committee sponsorship.