In a world saturated with overly-familiar interpretations of the Gospels, Matthew & Mark: A Defamiliarizing Reading from Indigenous Middle Eastern Sources offers a groundbreaking perspective. Driven to decolonize and reconnect with the native roots of these sacred texts, this book takes you on a transformative journey. Through the lens of the earliest complete versions in languages indigenous to the Middle East—Aramaic and Coptic—you'll encounter the Gospels of Matthew and Mark in a way that will make you question everything you thought you knew.

This foreignizing reading experience will challenge your perceptions and make you feel like a dizzyingly disoriented (but honored) guest in someone else’s world. Because when you read the Gospels, you are, you’ve just forgotten it until now…