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The New Testament: A Translation Hardcover – 2 January 2018
David Bentley Hart (Translator) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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“The greatest achievement of Hart’s translation is to restore the urgency of the original. . . . It is beautiful.”—James Mumford, Standpoint
“This translation is a remarkable feat.”—Lucy Beckett, Times Literary Supplement
David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doctrine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impenetrability and unfinished quality while awakening readers to an uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers.
The early Christians’ sometimes raw, astonished, and halting prose challenges the idea that the New Testament affirms the kind of people we are. Hart reminds us that they were a company of extremists, radical in their rejection of the values and priorities of society not only at its most degenerate, but often at its most reasonable and decent. “To live as the New Testament language requires,” he writes, “Christians would have to become strangers and sojourners on the earth, to have here no enduring city, to belong to a Kingdom truly not of this world. And we surely cannot do that, can we?”
- Print length512 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publisher*Yale University Press
- Publication date2 January 2018
- Dimensions23.88 x 16.26 x 4.06 cm
- ISBN-100300186096
- ISBN-13978-0300186093
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- Publisher : *Yale University Press; 1st edition (2 January 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0300186096
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300186093
- Dimensions : 23.88 x 16.26 x 4.06 cm
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David Bentley Hart is the author of several books, including In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments and The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth.
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That picture of a horrible cross on the front page insults what JESUS died on.
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As far as this translation is concerned, I'm not so sure about "for they imagine that they will be listened to by virtue of their prolixity" from the Sermon on the Mount. Mr Hart, judged on other works, appears to disdain a perfectly appropriate word, well known to those of limited vocabulary, in favour of one that gets me scuttling to the Dictionary. But no matter, I like the man - his writings and what I can make out of his theology.
This translation has a sense of "immediacy" and seeks not to be an abstract representation of some literary fancy embalmed in time. It speaks. Communicates.
I'm more into Buddhology myself having drifted east on my own path. Leaving behind many of the more obscene and ridiculous assertions of the average fundamentalist evangelical. Of course, out east, I've found much of the same so little is gained - except, perhaps, recognition of my own stupidities.
Well, enough waffling. This is a fine translation for those seeking what could be called a "liberal study bible". Mr Hart seems to me quite sane.
Thank you.

Footnotes are simply an attempt to give the reader as much access as possible to the original world in which the text was first written.
For those so inclined there is a 70 page exhaustive postscript

