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Real Bible Translation is a syntactical-literal and etymological-literal translation of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. It is not based on any previous translation. It uses a reverse-translation methodology and computational linguistics as the basis for a digitized database-driven translation.

History
Work on the Real Bible Translation began in early 2018 with completion of the book of Genesis in 2020. Much of the foundational influence for the work is rooted in the unknown Hebrew "accusative of time and space" and observations of Robert Young's attempt to handle and convey of the two unknown verb tenses traditionally referred to as complete and incomplete or perfect and imperfect, depending on the scholar. These two tenses are known to be untranslatable and research has shown that even the translator(s) of the LXX did not understand how the Hebrew tenses worked, yet Robert attempted to convey the distinction where other translations conjectured modern tenses. His arguments for this are found in the preface of his 1862 translation.

Reverse Formal Equivalence Approach
The translation methodology of the RBT is in reverse of normal translation methodology such that the ancient Hebrew is not interpreted into English word-tokens, but rather English word-tokens are interpreted into the ancient Hebrew. This means every Hebrew word-token is assigned only one English equivalent translation rather than translated into dozens of different, subjective ways. In other words, the Hebrew word-tokens act as the "target" language, and the English as the "source".

One example is the waw-conjunctive which is normally translated as "and" but sometimes might be translated as "or", or "but" so that the modern mind can make sense of what they are reading. This direction posits ancient thought patterns into modern thought patterns. With reverse-translation methodology, the RBT tries to posit modern thought patterns into ancient ones. Hence, every waw-conjunctive is translated the same, "and".