A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts By Hal Taussig

• Format Paperback | 660 pages
• Dimensions 134.87 x 202.95 x 29.97mm | 453.59g
• Publication date 01 Sep 2015
• Publisher Mariner Books,US
• Publication City/Country Boston, MA, United States
• Language English
• ISBN13 9780544570108

There are 27 books in the traditional New Testament, but the early-Christian community was far more vibrant than that small number might lead you to think. In fact, many more scriptures were written and were just as important as the New Testament in shaping early-Christian communities and beliefs.

Over the past century, many of those texts that were lost have been found and translated, yet they are rarely read in contemporary churches. In A New New Testament Hal Taussig seeks to change that.

Many of these documents were as important to shaping early-Christian communities and beliefs as what we have come to call the New Testament; these were not the work of shunned sects or rebel apostles, not alternative histories or doctrines, but part of the vibrant conversations that sparked the rise of Christianity.

Reading the traditional scriptures alongside these new texts—the Gospel of Luke with the Gospel of Mary, Paul's letters with The Letter of Peter to Philip, The Revelation to John with The Secret Revelation to John—offers the exciting possibility of understanding both the new and the old better.

This new reading, and the accompanying commentary in this volume, promises to reinvigorate a centuries-old conversation and to bring new relevance to a dynamic tradition.

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