Acts and Letters of the Apostles
Richmond A. Lattimore
- Richmond
- Lattimore,
- one
- of
- the
- most
- distinguished
- living
- translators
- of
- Greek,
- has
- in
- this
- book
- completed
- his
- rendering
- of
- the
- New
- Testament
- in
- fresh
- and
- accurate
- English
- for
- the
- modern
- reader.
- The
- publication
- of
- his
- translation
- of
- The
- Four
- Gospels
- and
- the
- Revelation
- in
- 1979
- was
- hailed
- by
- the
- New
- York
- Times
- Book
- Review
- as
- "an
- achievement
- that
- places
- us
- more
- deeply
- in
- Lattimore's
- debt
- than
- any
- other
- in
- a
- long
- diligent
- career."The
- Acts
- of
- the
- Apostles,
- which
- he
- calls
- "the
- earliest
- consecutive
- story
- of
- early
- Christianity
- that
- we
- have,"
- and
- the
- three
- groups
- of
- *Letters
- of
- the
- Apostles--*those
- of
- Saint
- Paul,
- the
- letter
- to
- the
- Hebrews,
- and
- the
- General
- Letters--are
- now
- made
- available
- to
- complete
- the
- New
- Testament
- in
- his
- translation.
- His
- aim
- again
- has
- been
- to
- provide
- a
- simple,
- literal
- rendering
- in
- which
- the
- syntax
- and
- order
- of
- the
- Greek
- dictate
- the
- character
- of
- the
- English
- style.Lattimore,
- as
- an
- authority
- on
- the
- Greek
- language
- in
- which
- these
- texts
- have
- come
- down
- to
- us,
- and
- as
- a
- writer
- without
- pretensions
- as
- a
- biblical
- scholar,
- allows
- the
- words
- of
- the
- apostles
- and
- earliest
- disciples
- to
- speak
- for
- themselves
- with
- accuracy
- and
- fidelity
- to
- the
- Greek.
- The
- book's
- design
- follows
- the
- attractive
- and
- readable
- format
- of
- The
- Four
- Gospels,
- and
- avoids
- the
- usual
- apparatus
- of
- biblical texts.
