The Kingdom New Testament, Paperback Spiral-Bound | 2012-11-06
N. T. Wright
The Kingdom New Testament, Paperback
The New Testament for the Twenty-First Century
Many readers of the New Testament have grown overly familiar with the biblical text, losing sight of the wonder and breadth of its innovative ideas and world-changing teachings about the life and role of Jesus of Nazareth. In The Kingdom New Testament, N. T. Wright, author and one of the world's leading New Testament scholars, offers an all-new English translation that invigorates these sacred texts and allows contemporary readers to encounter these historic works afresh. The original Greek text is vibrant, alive, and active, and Wright's translation retains that spirit by providing a new English text for the twenty-first-century reader. At the same time, based on his work as a pioneering interpreter of the Bible, Wright also corrects other translations so as to provide more accurate representations of the original writers' intent.
The Kingdom New Testament features consistent use of gender-neutral language and a more "popular-level" language matching of the original Greek, while maintaining the vibrancy and urgency of the original work. It will help the next generation of Christians acquire a firsthand understanding of what the New Testament had to say in its own world, and what it urgently has to say in ours.
Features:
- Complete text of the Kingdom New Testament--a fresh, new translation by N. T. Wright
- Preface by N. T. Wright
- Dozens of maps throughout the text
- Paragraph headings
"A splendid achievement! Tom Wright, the world's most influential New Testament interpreter, gives us in The Kingdom New Testament a readable and dynamic translation marked by precision, personality, and power. For the public reading of Scripture, The Kingdom New Testament will be unsurpassed. If I got to decide for the church, this is the one translation I'd want everyone to read. Time and time again as I was reading The Kingdom New Testament, I was marking in the margins words like this: 'Yes,' 'splendid,' 'perfect,' 'clever,' 'evocative,' and 'finally.'" -Scot McKnight, Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
"A good translator of the New Testament needs three important qualifications. These include a mastery of the New Testament Greek, an exceptional command of modern English, and broad skills in and knowledge of New Testament interpretation. N.T. Wright is superbly competent in all three. As to translations themselves, often they are either too 'popular' or too 'formal.' This fresh translation of the New Testament strikes a fine balance between the two as it ably rescues truth from familiarity. The translation includes 38 helpful maps, mostly in Acts, that show clearly the movement of the apostles discussed in the text. I recommend it highly to all who love the New Testament." -Kenneth E. Bailey, Professor of New Testament (Emeritus) The Ecumenical Institute, (Tantur) Jerusalem
"For some people, reading the Bible is like making a journey to a strange and forbidding land. For others, the Bible has grown old and stale, like an all-too-familiar old shoe. Welcome Tom Wright's years-in-the-making Kingdom New Testament: a comforting voice for struggling newcomers, a fresh voice for translation-tired veterans. I know of no one more qualified to take the message of the New Testament and put it into words that the modern person can fully understand." -Nicholas Perrin, Franklin S. Dyrness Professor of Biblical Studies, Wheaton College
"[The Kingdom New Testament] will confirm Professor Wright's position as the J.K.Rowling of Christian Publishing." -Church Times
"Reading Wright's volume feels like sitting in on a Greek Bible class with a great teacher." -Christian Century
"Wright's readable text serves as a refreshing, helpful way to re-hear familiar narratives." -Religious Herald
N. T. Wright is the former bishop of Durham and senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. He is one of the world's leading New Testament scholars and the award-winning author of many books, including?After You Believe,?Surprised by Hope,?Simply Christian,?Interpreting Paul, and?The New Testament in Its World, as well as the Christian Origins and the Question of God series.