Acknowledgments

Preface: Yeshua and the Poor

Introduction: A Reformation of Openness

A Reformation of Openness

A New Translation

Three Invisible Poets: Yeshua ben Yosef, Yohanan the Evangelist, and Yohanan of the Apocalypse

Gospels and Apocalypse

A Note on New Covenant Scripture

A Note on the Greek Source Texts

Gospel of Markos---Mark

Gospel of Mattai---Matthew

Gospel of Loukas---Luke

Gospel of Yohanan---John

Apocalypse---Revelation

Afterword: Translation History, Anti-Judaism, Authors and Sources, Yeshua to Jesus, Passover Death and Rome, And Yeshua the Voice of Spirit

A Brief History of the Translator's Way

Anti-Judaism in the New Covenant

On the Gospels' Authorship, Texts, and Elusive Semitic Sources

How Yeshua ben Yosef Became Yeshua the Messiah and Jesus the Christ

Historical Bases of Yeshua's Life and Death: Journey from Event to Gospel

Christian Jews or Jewish Christians

Old Bibles of the Early Christians

Old Covenant or New Covenant as in Old Circumcision or New Circumcision

The Church Agon Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Covenant and an Almost Happy Reconciliation

A Gentleman's Agreement in the Gospels that Jews in the Yeshua Movement Not Be Perceived as Jews

The Evangelists as Apologists for Rome

To Soften the Blows by Softening the Translation or to Let It All Hang Out

Appendices

Names of God

Order of the Gospels

A Note on Transcription

Glossary of Greek and Biblical Proper Names

Works Cited and Selected Bibliography

Greek Texts