He uses modern biblical scholarship and textual analysis to narrow down the "authentic" Jesus from the sectarian passages, the polemical passages and myths added by the early church. In many ways, that too is the approach of Mitchell. Jefferson wanted nothing to get between him and Jesus. He draws inspiration from the Jefferson Bible (aka The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth) where Thomas Jefferson cut the New Testament down to only include the saying of Jesus. The first 1/3 of this book (pp 1-97 including about 35 pages of notes) is Mitchell's introduction to the project. So, I was excited to see what approach he would take with Jesus from the Gospels. I'm a big fan of Mitchell's translation (interpretations). Stephen Mitchell, The Gospel According to Jesus You can read extensive excerpts from all his books on his website, "We can't begin to see who Jesus was until we remove the layers of interpretation which centuries have interposed between us and him, and which obscure his true face, like coat after coat of lacquer upon the vibrant colors of a masterpiece."
He is also coauthor of two of his wife Byron Katie’s bestselling books: Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for Joy. His books for young readers include The Wishing Bone, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award as the best book of poetry for children published in the United States in 2003, and Jesus: What He Really Said and Did, which was chosen by the American Library Association’s Booklist as one of the top ten religious books for children in 2002.
He is a two-time winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His translation of the Iliad was chosen as one of the New Yorker’s favorite books of 2011. Gilgamesh was Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review, was selected as the Book Sense 2004 Highlight for Poetry, was a finalist for the first annual Quill Award in poetry. Mitchell’s Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been called “the most beautiful group of poetic translations century has produced.” William Arrowsmith said that his Sonnets to Orpheus “instantly makes every other rendering obsolete.” His Book of Job has been called “magnificent.” His bestselling Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Gilgamesh-which are not translations from the original text, but rather poetic interpretations that use existing translations into Western languages as their starting point-have also been highly praised by critics, scholars, and common readers. His many books include The Gospel According to Jesus, The Second Book of the Tao, two books of fiction, and a book of poetry. He is widely known for his ability to make old classics thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and to create versions that are definitive for our time. Stephen Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the Sorbonne, and Yale University, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice.
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