If you've never read Vincent Price's Critical Emphatic Paraphrase of the New Testament, you are not alone. Only 120 copies of the first edition were produced. It was "published" on a spirit process duplicator. Does anyone know what that was? Was it that big round metal drum with those awful smelling chemicals?
The Bible Museum in Michigan loaned a copy to Richard Estes who re-published this rare New Testament. Richard scanned the pages, ran them through an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process and then edited the resulting text. I browsed a copy at the the recent convention of the International Society of Bible Collectors. It appears very well done. Since it is re-typeset the text is much clearer than a picture of the original.
It is a bit pricey, but I have not seen any copy available before this. It is available through Lulu.com in hardback for $85 or in paperback for $60.
Please, can you give us a sampling of how Roth had opted to render some of the more controversial verses; e.g., John 1:1, 8:58, 10:30-34, etc.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a copy since it was produced by somebody else. Maybe the producer will give us some quotes?
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