Text-Critical English New Testament

The Text-Critical English New Testament is a recent English rendering of the New Testament designed explicitly around independent text-critical evaluation. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, translated from Greek, and its base text is formed not by adopting an existing printed edition but by the translator's own eclectic text-critical decisions, weighing the readings preserved in the manuscript tradition. In this it participates in a line of inquiry that has shaped English Bibles since the nineteenth century, when the comparison of Greek witnesses began to displace reliance on a single received text. Its translation philosophy is formal and text-critical, and it stands as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an earlier version. Its distinctiveness accordingly lies both in its English rendering and in the underlying Greek readings selected for translation, so that questions ordinarily confined to critical apparatuses and footnotes are carried into the translated text itself.