This new, innovative translation of the New Testament opens the closed doors of preconception and allows the reader to view these important Greek writings in an entirely different light. Based on a radical and startling premise, The Unvarnished New Testament asks "Why not present the New Testament simply as it appears in the original Greek?"

Andy Gaus is the author of "The Unvarnished New Testament, " a complete translation from the Greek, and the translator of Wilhelm Busch's classic children's book, "Max and Moritz." A composer and lyricist as well as a poet and translator, Gaus has written songs and scores for revues, musicals and operas produced in Boston, where he makes his home.
This volume collects Gaus's lifetime poetry output, with verse translations from Rilke, Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Aeschylus, as well as his own poems. The selections range from rhymed stanzas to blank verse and free verse, marked by a distinctive lyricism and musicality throughout.

This contemporary literary translation of the Gospels 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.