Literal Emphasis Translation

The Literal Emphasis Translation is a distinct literal English rendering of the New Testament, prepared from the Greek and designed to expose emphasis and the structure of the source language. Its translating philosophy is literal, with emphasis marking used to signal features that ordinary English word order and punctuation tend to obscure — an approach with precedent in the tradition of study-oriented, highly formal English versions that seek to bring readers close to the shape of the original text rather than to smooth it into idiomatic prose. It is classed as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier English version, and so stands outside the long line of revisions descending from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Bibles. It is included in this catalogue chiefly as a completeness backstop, ensuring fuller coverage of the English translation and revision families.