Unfortunately no. To replace Publisher you need to have good BARS backup, rebuild the Pub, upgrade to version of backup (any SRs and ESs), and restore from backup.
Few times I've seen broken replication between Pub and Sub after restores. In this case you would manually re-establish replication or use dblhelper utility.
If you have a hardware issue but the drive is good you can just move the drive to a good identical system and that should work.
