| The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas Contributor(s): Barnstone, Willis (Translator) |
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ISBN: 039306493X ISBN-13: 9780393064933 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $53.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2009 Annotation: From acclaimed scholar Willis Barnstone, The Restored New Testament-newly translated from the Greek and informed by Semitic sources. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Gnosticism - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General |
| Dewey: 225.520 |
| LCCN: 2009026133 |
| Physical Information: 1.91" H x 6.5" W x 9.56" (3.01 lbs) 1504 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the first time since the King James Version in 1611, Willis Barnstone has given us an amazing literary and historical version of the New Testament. Barnstone preserves the original song of the Bible, rendering a large part in poetry and the epic Revelation in incantatory blank verse. This monumental translation is the first to restore the original Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew names (Markos for Mark, Yeshua for Jesus), thereby revealing the Greco-Jewish identity of biblical people and places. Citing historical and biblical scholarship, he changes the sequence of texts and adds three seminal Gnostic gospels. Each book has elegant introductions and is thoroughly annotated. With its superlative writing and lyrical wisdom, The Restored New Testament is a magnificent biblical translation for our age. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barnstone, Willis: - Willis Barnstone, professor, poet, and scholar, is the author of eighty volumes, including The Restored New Testament, The Gnostic Bible, The Poems of Jesus Christ, The Poetics of Translation, and Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He lives in Oakland, California, and Paris. |