The Poems of Jesus Christ [Paperback]

Jesus Christ, whose teachings have been on the lips of millions for two millennia, is revealed here as one of the greatest poets of all time. What happened to deafen us to the poetic nature of his words? In migrating from Aramaic speech into written Greek translation, and later into English translation, the lyrics got locked up as prose.The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way& with evocative simplicity.Great and original& The writing in this form, as poetry, adds a new dimension to their beauty, conciseness, paradox, and mystery.Four of the best things in America are Walt WhitmansThis recasting from the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, presents Jesus words poetically and faithfully to their full power  that of poetry.Barnstone offers excerpts fromLike most early prophets, Jesus would have spoken in a form of poetry, albeit one based on patterns of sounds, repetition, and other devices of prosody quite different from the Greco-Roman forms. What Barnstone has now produced, he hopes, is a sequence of Jesuss aphorisms.A book landed on my desk with the curious titleIn restoring the words of Jesus to their rightful poetry, and making an excellent case for this necessity, Barnstone brings their music, passion, ethics and intellectual rigor into a more complete view.BarnstonesWhen I read such verses aloud, it does not matter to me whether a poem or poetic saying comes from King James, Douay-Rheims, New Revised Standard, New Jerusalem Bible, Revised English Version, or any of the dozens of translations Ive read and loved. But, once again, Prof. Barnstone took our idea to a new level& After the second full reading and the third and fourth randomly-done peeks, I continue to recommend this book highly.The words of Jesus Christ are restored to their original poetic form in this extraordinary volume.