The New Covenant

by Barnstone, Willis

• ISBN13: 9781573229364
• ISBN10: 1573229369
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-03
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

In this poetic and historically sensitive new translation of the four Gospels and Revelation, award-winning poet, translator, and scholar Willis Barnstone returns the bedrock of Christianity to its origins as an outgrowth of Judaism. With a hundred-fifty-page introduction that is itself a fully developed work of scholarship, Barnstone places the Christian Bible in new perspective, reshaping our understanding of the seminal books of the Bible and of our own assumptions about our historical and religious heritage.

Author Biography

Willis Barnstone, former O'Conner Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, and a founding member of the Institute of Biblical and Literary Studies, at Indiana University. A Guggenheim fellow, a poet, and the author of Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice, he has received many honors over the years.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	1	(3)
Preface: Yeshua and the Poor	3	(4)
Introduction: A Reformation of Openness	7	(32)
A Reformation of Openness	8	(1)
A New Translation	9	(19)
Three Invisible Poets: Yeshua ben Yosef, Yohanan the Evangelist, and Yohanan of the Apocalypse	28	(11)
Gospels and Apocalypse	39	(390)
A Note on New Covenant Scripture	40	(2)
A Note on the Greek Source Texts	42	(2)
Gospel of Markos---Mark	44	(62)
Gospel of Mattai---Matthew	106	(94)
Gospel of Loukas---Luke	200	(102)
Gospel of Yohanan---John	302	(77)
Apocalypse---Revelation	379	(50)
Afterword: Translation History, Anti-Judaism, Authors and Sources, Yeshua to Jesus, Passover Death and Rome, And Yeshua the Voice of Spirit	429	(132)
A Brief History of the Translator's Way	430	(9)
Anti-Judaism in the New Covenant	439	(4)
On the Gospels' Authorship, Texts, and Elusive Semitic Sources	443	(14)
How Yeshua ben Yosef Became Yeshua the Messiah and Jesus the Christ	457	(11)
Historical Bases of Yeshua's Life and Death: Journey from Event to Gospel	468	(25)
Christian Jews or Jewish Christians	493	(6)
Old Bibles of the Early Christians	499	(8)
Old Covenant or New Covenant as in Old Circumcision or New Circumcision	507	(14)
The Church Agon Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Covenant and an Almost Happy Reconciliation	521	(6)
A Gentleman's Agreement in the Gospels that Jews in the Yeshua Movement Not Be Perceived as Jews	527	(21)
The Evangelists as Apologists for Rome	548	(9)
To Soften the Blows by Softening the Translation or to Let It All Hang Out	557	(4)
Appendices	561	(1)
Names of God	562	(4)
Order of the Gospels	566	(1)
A Note on Transcription	567	(2)
Glossary of Greek and Biblical Proper Names	569	(3)
Works Cited and Selected Bibliography	572	(4)
Greek Texts	577