Dimensions
152 x 218 x 25mm
The words of Jesus Christ are restored to their original poetic form in this extraordinary volume, revealing Jesus Christ as one of the greatest poets of all time.
But 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.
In 'The Poems of Jesus Christ' Willis Barnstone unveils the essential poetry of the gospels by taking the direct speech of Jesus from Mark, Matthew, Luke and John and lineating and titling Jesus's words as individual poems.
