Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      1

Preface: Yeshua and the Poor      3

Introduction: A Reformation of Openness      7

      A Reformation of Openness      8

      A New Translation      9

      Three Invisible Poets: Yeshua ben Yosef, Yohanan the Evangelist,
      and Yohanan of the Apocalypse      2 8

Gospels and Apocalypse      3 9

      A Note on New Covenant Scripture      4 0

      A Note on the Greek Source Texts      4 2

      Gospel of Markos (Mark)      4 4            Exerpt

      Gospel of Mattai (Matthew)      1 0 6

      Gospel of Loukas (Luke)      2 0 0

      Gospel of Yohanan (John)      3 0 2

      Apocalypse (Revelation)      3 7 9

Afterword: Translation History, Anti-Judaism, Authors and Sources, Yeshua to Jesus, Passover Death and Rome, and Yeshua the Voice of Spirit      4 2 9

      A Brief History of the Translator's Way      4 3 0

      Anti-Judaism in the New Covenant      4 3 9

      On the Gospels' Authorship, Texts, and Elusive Semitic Sources      4 4 3

      How Yeshua ben Yosef Became Yeshua the Messiah
      and Jesus the Christ      4 5 7

      Historical Bases of Yeshua's Life and Death: Journey
      from Event to Gospel      4 6 8

      Christian Jews or Jewish Christians      4 9 3

      Old Bibles of the Early Christians      4 9 9

      Old Covenant or New Covenant as in Old Circumcision
      or New Circumcision      5 0 7

      The Church Agon Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Covenant
      and an Almost Happy Reconciliation      5 2 1

      A Gentleman's Agreement in the Gospels that Jews in the Yeshua
      Movement Not Be Perceived as Jews      5 2 7

      The Evangelists as Apologists for Rome      5 4 8

      To Soften the Blows by Softening the Translation or to
      Let It All Hang Out      5 5 7

Appendices      5 6 1

      Names of God      5 6 2

      Order of the Gospels      5 6 6

      A Note on Transcription      5 6 7

      Glossary of Greek and Biblical Proper Names      5 6 9

      Works Cited and Selected Bibliography      5 7 2

      Greek Texts      5 7 7

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