{"product_id":"2940169524758","title":"The Memoirs of St. Peter: A New Translation of the Gospel According to Mark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Gospel as you have never heard it before\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a distance of twenty centuries, the figure of Jesus of Nazareth can seem impossibly obscureamp;mdash;indeed, some skeptics even question whether he existed. And yet we have an eyewitness account of his life, death, and resurrection from one of his closest companions, the sherman Simon Bar-Jonah, better known as the Apostle Peter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriters from the earliest days of the Church tell us that Peter's disciple Mark wrote down the apostle's account of the life of Jesus as he told it to the first Christians in Rome. The vivid, detailed, unadorned prose of the Gospel of Mark conveys the unmistakable immediacy of a first-hand account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor most readers, however, this immediacy is hidden behind a veil of Greek, the language of the New Testament writers. Four centuries of English translations have achieved nobility of cadence or, more recently, idiomatic accessibility, but the voice of Peter himself has never fully emerged. Until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this strikingly original translation, attentive to Peter's concern to show what it was like to be there, Michael Pakaluk captures the tone and texture of the sherman's evocative account, leading the listener to a bracing new encounter with Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe accompanying verse-by-verse commentaryamp;mdash;less theological than historicalamp;mdash;will equip you to experience Mark's Gospel as the narrative of an eyewitness, drawing you into its scenes, where you will come to know Jesus of Nazareth with new intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stunning work of scholarship readily accessible to the layman, \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of St. Peter\u003c\/i\u003e belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Christian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178623877360,"sku":"2940169524758","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169524758_p0.jpg?v=1769895762","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169524758","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}