The Greek scholar William Lorimer spent the last ten years of his life working on this project. Each Gospel has a different form of Scots to match the different forms of Greek used by the various apostles and scribes, and the vigour and immediacy of the language is everywhere apparent.
Transcribed, edited and published by his son Robin Lorimer, this scholarly and dramatically fresh reading of an already familiar text caused a sensation when it first appeared in 1983. Beyond the poetry of the King James version, here are the voices of the disciples themselves, speaking, as they undoubtedly did, in 'plain braid Galilee'.
- ISBN10 1841951447
- ISBN13 9781841951447
- Publish Date 27 September 2001 (first published 31 December 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Canongate Books Ltd
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 528
- Language English