The New Testament

A Translation

By: David Bentley Hart

Narrated by: Eric Martin

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 listeners 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?"

©2017 David Bentley Hart (P)2018 Tantor

Critic reviews

"This necessary, brilliantly presented translation reads like taking a biblical studies class with a provocative professor." (Publishers Weekly)

Great Translation

This is a Great Scholarly translation of the Greek New Testament of Our Holy Bible and a look can help someone

Interesting translation and reading

I am not an exert in the new testament but this translation very accessible and the notes useful to make more sense of the context. In a way even if less poetic than other translation its nicer and seems less confusing.

Currently my favorite translation

Makes you think. Rather than be forced into the common translations out there today that are done by committee and driven by evangelical thinking.

Excellent translation.

Finally, a translation I feel I can trust.
Of course the book itself is pretty good too. I appreciate it more, the more times I listen to it.

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Thank you to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit!