Unvarnished New Testament






	The Unvarnished New Testament The translator of the Unvarnished New Testament, Andy Gaus, has tried to reproduce the simplicity and humanity of the Greek into English. His aim throughout has been to re-create the original readers' experience rather than to re-create the original authors' words. He has felt that the word is less important than the sentence, and that the sentence is less important than the paragraph. He has attached much importance to word order, since Greek word order is very free and represents a conscious choice of what to emphasize. He has often changed the grammatical construction but kept the principal sentence elements in the original order. This is a New Testament that attempts to make the English text strike the reader with the same earthy immediacy that a native reader of ancient Greek felt. It preserves abrupt style, grammatical problems and uses "unchurchy" words. This translation lacks verse numbers (as do the Greek manuscripts). If you're reading for impact, this is certainly one to consider. It may show you things you missed in other translations.

The Unvarnished New Testament
This innovative translation of the New Testament by Andy Gaus allows the reader to view these important writings as they simply appear in the original Greek. Other translations were made by committees; they interpreted the text through theological doctrines and dogmas that arose centuries after the books were written. This new translation strips away these thick layers of convention to portray an ageless beauty that no earlier translation has captured. Paperback.

The Unvarnished Gospels
This contemporary literary translation of the Gospels by Andy Gaus will give readers a remarkable new perspective on the Gospels, a feel for them that is very much like the experience of reading the original Greek in all its simplicity and conversational style. By contrast, other translations interpret the Greek through church dogmas that arose centuries after the original texts. In this edition a glossary elucidates the original meanings of key words and compares them with their conventional translations. Paperback.