http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/adolf-schlatters-faith-in-the-new-testament/#comments
Logos is apparently considering undertaking a translation of Adolf Schlatter’s classic ‘Glaube im Neuen Testament‘. This book has, astonishingly, never been rendered into English (a fact that continues to appall). So I hope they do. It’s brilliant. Even the opening preface is a delight (because Schlatter tells the story of a little old lady who thanked him for his work- it had helped her understand what faith was better than anything else).
Schlatter was an awesome scholar. Really a polymath. He’s not read widely enough because of two factors: biblical scholars in America can scarcely manage to bother with Hebrew and Greek. Forget about learning German. And second, Schlatter wrote so much it would take an army of translators working for years to finish his corpus.
So hooray for Logos for at least trying to get a remarkable volume out to a larger public.
As someone who only began discovering Schlatter's work in the last year or so (thanks very much to my pastor!) I'm excited to learn that there may finally be some more English language work toward getting Schlatter's work available. I never learned German, which is sad considering how much I love the music of Bach, Haydn, and Hindemith, but such is life. Anyway, I'm still slowly reading through Schlatter's challenging but amazing commentary on Romans. It really is that much work and it really is an amazing book.
So if you can't read German this is good news. I just barely remember enough of basic koine Greek that while I admit I have to work hard I can figure out most of what Schlatter talks about when he casually drops long Greek phrases in. Which is to say I can pronounce most of the words a little and context clarifies a lot. Schlatter is not for a casual reader of biblical literature! You seriously must be able to recall massive amounts of text and employ associative memory dozens of time per page. Fortunately it is humanly possible to do that. :)
West has been nice enough to tag all posts Schlatter here--
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/category/schlatter/
I'm terrible at tagging things so I may have to learn from West's example. :)
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