Hearing the New Testament Afresh

A pre‑70 CE translation, commentary, interlinear and full biblical analysis — built from the Greek, read in the world that produced it.

The problem

Most translations quietly import later theology into the text — centuries after the writers lived. I wanted something I could trust to reflect a pre‑70 CE understanding of the New Testament: what its first hearers themselves would have heard.

Then AI made it possible. What began as experiments became a driving question — can AI help people finally see what God's word plainly says? Over countless early mornings, lunchtimes, evenings and weekends, the answer became this project.

What it is

A complete study library, generated step by step from the Greek text:

• Translation — word‑for‑word interlinear, plus a readable English text
• Commentary — full per‑passage exegesis, historical and pastoral
• Annotated interlinear — every key gloss choice explained
• Cross‑book analyses — groups of related writings read together
• Meta‑analysis — all 27 books distilled into one complete pre‑70 CE proclamation
• Concept‑Language Inventory — the reference companion: the shared vocabulary and the resolved cruces

How it reads

Everything starts from the Handbook — the project's shared reference work. It does not tell the translator what to conclude. It describes the mental furniture a first‑century Jewish believer already possessed: the Shema as bedrock, the agency principle (a sent one bears the sender's authority), the two ages, patronage and allegiance, personification of God's attributes, and "before the foundation" as foreordination in the divine purpose.

It also sets the method: nine rules for context, lexical range, consistency and the Shema test, plus the capitalisation conventions that keep all 27 books aligned — strict with participles, the article and the middle voice, and refusing Sharp's Rule as a shortcut to later readings.

The process was aware of this world — as its first readers would have been. But it was not programmed to force that world onto the text. The AI read the Greek on its own terms; what the text says about Jesus, the spirit, the law, and the assembly is discovered, not imposed.

Why trust it

Examine the process. The full documentation — the method, the worked examples — is laid out for you to judge.

Examine the translation. Much will feel familiar, and should. But where routine translations smooth the Greek into later idiom, this one deliberately stays closer to the original. The interlinear shows it word by word.

Examine the commentary. Each contested text is defended from the Greek, the context, and the Old Testament — not from later categories.

Examine the corpus. The cross‑book analyses and the meta‑analysis lay the witnesses side by side. The messages match. Where are the contradictions?

Where to start

1. Read the process. Understand the rigour and the data it produced.
2. Spot‑check the verses you know. See the familiar mistranslations resolved — and why.
3. Test the proof texts. For or against your own doctrines, each one is defended from the Greek.
4. Then explore the analysis. The cross‑book groups, then the meta‑analysis — the correlations and findings are remarkable.

Explore

• Process documentation — the method, the workflow, the quality assurance
• Translations & commentaries — per‑book texts, clean renderings, exegesis, interlinear
• Analysis section — eight cross‑book analyses, in rough time order, finishing with the meta‑analysis
• Meta‑analysis — the complete pre‑70 CE proclamation
• Concept‑Language Inventory — the reference companion