‘In the Gospels, no one is essential but Jesus’: new translation adds fresh scholarship
“To write yet another translation of the New Testament is probably something of a foolish venture,” wrote David Bentley Hart in 2017 as he set out to do that very thing. “No matter what one produces – recklessly liberal, timidly conservative, or something poised equilibriously in between – it will provoke consternation (and probably indignation) in countless breasts.”
His translation was quite lovely and very well annotated (and gets extra points just for that “equilibriously” alone), but he was
