{"product_id":"the-new-testament-a-translation-paperback-1","title":"The New Testament: A Translation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Bentley Hart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second edition of David Bentley Hart's critically acclaimed New Testament translation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a \"remarkable feat\" and as a \"strange, disconcerting, radical version of a strange, disconcerting manifesto of profoundly radical values.\" In this second edition, which includes a powerful new preface and more than a thousand changes to the text, Hart's purpose remains the same: to render the original Greek texts faithfully, free of doctrine and theology, awakening readers to the uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through his startling translation, with its raw, unfinished quality, Hart reveals a world conceptually quite unlike our own. \"It was a world,\" he writes, \"in which the heavens above were occupied by celestial spiritual potentates of questionable character, in which angels ruled the nations of the earth as local gods, in which demons prowled the empty places, . . . and in which the entire cosmos was for many an eternal divine order and for many others a darkened prison house.\" He challenges readers to imagine it anew: a God who reigned on high, appearing in the form of a slave and dying as a criminal, only then to be raised up and revealed as the Lord of all things.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bentley Hart\u003c\/b\u003e, an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion, is a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThat All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in South Bend, IN.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 648\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52442873069875,"sku":"9780300265705","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/YTB5MjhaM3ZWbUo1aWxLcFZyMkc1QT09_53233fec-979b-49fb-bdc6-f8eb52d3165f.webp?v=1758909301","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-new-testament-a-translation-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}