Author: JORDAN, Clarence L. (translator)
Title: A Letter from Paul to the Christians in Atlanta or I Corinthians
Description: Americus, GA, Koinonia Farm, 1964. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff orange wrappers. 28pp. Fine. Intriguing oddball translation into modern idiomatic American English by this religious organization. In this "Koinonia 'Cotton Patch' Version," as they call it, "Paul is no longer a tent-making rabbi but a cotton-picking preacher; not a circumcised Jew but an aristocratic Southern white man; not a former Pharisee but an ex-Baptist. His mission is not to excluded Gentiles but to segregated Negroes.." From the private library of noted social protest poet and fine press publisher JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), who often wrote on Civil Rights issues. First edition. Uncommon. .

Keywords: Religion


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