Posts Tagged ‘The Cotton Patch translations’
Read The Lord’s Prayer again (Matt 6:9-13) and do the exercises below:
In The Cotton Patch Version, Clarence Jordan transalates the Lord’s prayer like this:
Read MoreFather of us, O Spiritual One
Your name be truly honored.
Your kingdom spread, your will prevail
Through earth, as through the heavens.
Sustaining bread grant us each day.
Forgive our debts as we forgive
The debts of all who cannot pay.
And from confusion keep us clear;
Deliver us from evil’s sway.
Today we’ll be wrapping up our time spent in the Beatitudes. First read Matthew 5:10-12, and then read the following excerpt from Clarence Jordan’s book Sermon on the Mount, and do the exercises below:
Read MoreIt is difficult to be indifferent to a wide awake Christian, a real live child of God. It is even more difficult to be indifferent to a whole body of Christians. You can hate them, or you can love them, but one thing is certain – you can’t ignore them. There’s something about them that won’t let you. It isn’t so much what they say or what they do. The thing that seems to haunt you is what they are. You can’t put them out of your mind anymore than you can shake off your shadow.
Read Matthew 5:1-12 and do the following exercises:
There’s only one exercise today, but it takes a little explaining. Clarence Jordan was an American New Testament scholar who lived in the first half of the 20th century. Among other accomplishments, he wrote a series of translations of several NT books called “The Cotton Patch translations.” Being from the south, Jordan felt the words of the New Testament we’re especially applicable to the turmoil that was occurring there at that time (1940’s through 1960’s), and so, should be written and read in the vernacular of the south. And so, Jordan wrote several translations of NT books in the slang of the south, even substituting place names for familiar areas on the Southern United States. In the Cotton Patch version of Luke Jordan renders Luke’s version of the beatitudes in a mid-century southern accent:
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