God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation
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God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation is a modern English translation of the New Testament
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. It was translated and edited by German-Jewish Christian writer and philosopher Heinrich Walter Cassirer
. The work was published in 1989, several years after his death.
Cassiser's own Jewish heritage and knowledge of Jewish customs is said to have given a unique insight into familiar Bible texts
. His translation is also noted for its formal language. Below is a sample passage, Matthew 7:24.
"What, then, is the nature of the person, whoever he may be, who hears these words of mine and acts on them? He is like a man of prudence who built his house on a rock. The rain descended, the floodwaters rose, the winds blew and hurled themselves against the house. But it did not fall because it was on a rock that its foundations was laid."
New Testament
The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
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. It was translated and edited by German-Jewish Christian writer and philosopher Heinrich Walter Cassirer
Heinz Cassirer
Dr. Heinz W. Cassirer was a Kantian philosopher, the son of a famous German philosopher, Ernst Cassirer. Being Jews, the Cassirer family fled the Nazis in the 1930s. Heinz went to University of Glasgow working with Professor H. J. Paton, who persuaded him to write a book on Kant's third...
. The work was published in 1989, several years after his death.
Cassiser's own Jewish heritage and knowledge of Jewish customs is said to have given a unique insight into familiar Bible texts
Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblia ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum...
. His translation is also noted for its formal language. Below is a sample passage, Matthew 7:24.
"What, then, is the nature of the person, whoever he may be, who hears these words of mine and acts on them? He is like a man of prudence who built his house on a rock. The rain descended, the floodwaters rose, the winds blew and hurled themselves against the house. But it did not fall because it was on a rock that its foundations was laid."