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The New Testament: A Translation

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From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament

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’ continuously fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impenetrability and unfinished quality whilst awakening readers to an uncanniness that continuously lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers.
 
The early Christians’ every now and then raw, astonished, and halting prose challenges the concept that the New Testament affirms the type 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 continuously at its most reasonable and decent. “To live as the New Testament language requires,” he writes, “Christians must turn out to be strangers and sojourners on this planet, to have here no enduring city, to belong to a Kingdom in point of fact not of this world. And we surely cannot do that, are we able to?”

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