The Four Gospels A New Translation

Author : Sarah Ruden
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525563652
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of Water written by Sarah Ruden and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling reconsideration of the language of the Old and New Testaments, acclaimed scholar and translator of classical literature Sarah Ruden argues that the Bible’s modern translations often lack the clarity and vitality of the originals. Singling out the most famous passages, such as the Genesis creation story, the Ten Commandments, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Beatitudes, Ruden reexamines and retranslates from the Hebrew and Greek, illuminating what has been misunderstood and obscured in standard English translations. By showing how the original texts more clearly reveal our cherished values, Ruden gives us an unprecedented understanding of what this extraordinary document was for its earliest readers and what it can still be for us today.

Author : Sarah Ruden
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0307379027
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Among the People written by Sarah Ruden and published by Image. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a common—and fundamental—misconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have violated his two main social principles: human freedom and dignity, and the need for people to love one another. Paul was a Hellenistic Jew, originally named Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, who made a living from tent making or leatherworking. He called himself the “Apostle to the Gentiles” and was the most important of the early Christian evangelists. Paul is not easy to understand. The Greeks and Romans themselves probably misunderstood him or skimmed the surface of his arguments when he used terms such as “law” (referring to the complex system of Jewish religious law in which he himself was trained). But they did share a language—Greek—and a cosmopolitan urban culture, that of the Roman Empire. Paul considered evangelizing the Greeks and Romans to be his special mission. “For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” The idea of love as the only rule was current among Jewish thinkers of his time, but the idea of freedom being available to anyone was revolutionary. Paul, regarded by Christians as the greatest interpreter of Jesus’ mission, was the first person to explain how Christ’s life and death fit into the larger scheme of salvation, from the creation of Adam to the end of time. Preaching spiritual equality and God’s infinite love, he crusaded for the Jewish Messiah to be accepted as the friend and deliverer of all humankind. In Paul Among the People, Sarah Ruden explores the meanings of his words and shows how they might have affected readers in his own time and culture. She describes as well how his writings represented the new church as an alternative to old ways of thinking, feeling, and living. Ruden translates passages from ancient Greek and Roman literature, from Aristophanes to Seneca, setting them beside famous and controversial passages of Paul and their key modern interpretations. She writes about Augustine; about George Bernard Shaw’s misguided notion of Paul as “the eternal enemy of Women”; and about the misuse of Paul in the English Puritan Richard Baxter’s strictures against “flesh-pleasing.” Ruden makes clear that Paul’s ethics, in contrast to later distortions, were humane, open, and responsible. Paul Among the People is a remarkable work of scholarship, synthesis, and understanding; a revelation of the founder of Christianity.

Author : Orville E. Daniel
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 080105642X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Harmony of the Four Gospels written by Orville E. Daniel and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the easiest-to-use parallel text harmonies of the Gospels now has an easier-to-read four-column type design.

Author : Richmond Lattimore
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466893605
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Gospels and the Revelation written by Richmond Lattimore and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and translator of Greek classics Richard Lattimore applies his skills to the four gospels and the Revelation.

Author : CHARLES CUTLER. TORREY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033089095
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FOUR GOSPELS written by CHARLES CUTLER. TORREY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Cutler Torrey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266291879
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Gospels written by Charles Cutler Torrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Four Gospels: A New Translation Jesus and his disciples spoke and wrote Aramaic. His re ported words and discourses, and the earliest accounts of his deeds, were written down and circulated in that language, as no one doubts. Documents of this sort were numerous (luke and they attest literary skill of a high order; thus notably the rather extensive source, Q, used by Matthew and Luke. In what way these primitive records were related to our Four Gospels, is a question which hitherto has nor received any satisfactory answer. It is purposed here to show that the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John were composed in Aramaic on the basis of popular documents widespread in Palestine, and that they were by others translated into Greek without intended change. Also, that Luke employed only Semitic sources, assembling them into an especially complete Gospel, which he himself translated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Agnes Smith Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.K8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Translation of the Four Gospels from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest written by Agnes Smith Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Liturgy Training Publications
ISBN 13 : 1568541112
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Gospels written by and published by Liturgy Training Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eye-catching volume features- the gospel reading for Sundays, solemnities, feasts of the Lord and all ritual Masses- design and size suitable for procession in the liturgy- thirty pieces of full-color original art- front, back and spine stamped in five colors of reflective foil- large, readable type printed on premium acid-free paper- gilded edges and a wide ribbon marker

Author : Richard Burridge
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281070318
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Gospels, One Jesus? written by Richard Burridge and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, and revised in 2005, this classic edition includes updated suggestions for further reading at the end of the book.

Author : Charles Cutler Torrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Gospels written by Charles Cutler Torrey and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: