Hal Taussig Editor and Commentary (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company, Boston, MA. 2013. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; toning of pages. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($32.00); edge bumping to top edges of DJ. Cream colored paper over boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 599 pp 8vo. There are twenty-seven books in the traditional New Testament, but the earliest Christian communities were 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yet are still not known to much of the public; they are discussed mainly by scholars or within a context of the now outdated notion of gnostic gospels. In A New New Testament Hal Taussig is changing that. With the help of nineteen important spiritual leaders, he has added ten of the recently discovered texts to the traditional New Testament, leading many churches and spiritual seekers to use this new New Testament for their spiritual and intellectual growth. A clean very presentable copy.…