David Bentley Hart A Translation The New Testament
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David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doc- trine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often...
show moreTestament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doc-
trine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often fragmentary for-
mulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a
pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impen-
etrability and unfinished quality while awakening readers 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 rea-
sonable and decent. “To live as the New Testament language re-
quires,” he writes, “Christians would have to become strangers
and sojourners on the earth, to have here no enduring city, to be-
long to a Kingdom truly not of this world. And we surely cannot
do that, can we?”
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