Tree of Life Version

The Tree of Life Version is a complete translation of the Bible into English, prepared afresh from the original-language texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek rather than revised from an earlier English version. Its stated aim is to restore Jewish names, terms, and context to the biblical text while remaining readable for contemporary English speakers, and its translation philosophy may be described as moderate in approach and oriented toward Jewish context. The work was produced by a team of Jewish believers in Jesus working alongside Christian scholars, placing it within the broader body of Messianic Jewish translation efforts that emerged in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Like other versions in that tradition, it retains Hebrew forms for personal and place names and for religious vocabulary where standard English Bibles have long used Anglicized or Greek-derived equivalents, and it is read chiefly in Messianic congregations and by readers interested in the Jewish setting of the Scriptures.