Mary's Voice in the Gospel According to John: A New Translation with Commentary

MICHAEL PAKALUK is a professor of ethics and social philosophy in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Harvard and studied as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Edinburgh. An expert in ancient philosophy, he has published widely on Aristotelian ethics and the philosophy of friendship and done groundbreaking work in business ethics. His previous books include Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship, The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God, and most recently The Memoirs of St. Peter: A New Translation of the Gospel according to Mark. He lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, with his wife, Catherine Pakaluk, a professor of economics, and their eight children.

"It is a rare scholar who can make the most familiar ancient text feel like it was just discovered. . . . I felt like I was reading Saint John for the first time."

—ARTHUR C. BROOKS, professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
"It is a rare scholar who can make the most familiar ancient text feel like it was just discovered. . . . I felt like I was reading Saint John for the first time."

—ARTHUR C. BROOKS, professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
"By the book’s closing pages, it would be difficult indeed to imagine that Mary had not influenced John’s work."

—ALEXANDRA DeSANCTIS, staff writer, National Review, and visiting fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
"By the book’s closing pages, it would be difficult indeed to imagine that Mary had not influenced John’s work."

—ALEXANDRA DeSANCTIS, staff writer, National Review, and visiting fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
"This is a rare kind of scholarship, both enlightening and fascinating."

—ROBERT ROYAL, president, Faith and Reason Institute
"This is a rare kind of scholarship, both enlightening and fascinating."

—ROBERT ROYAL, president, Faith and Reason Institute
"Michael Pakaluk has put vast learning and formidable skills as a biblical translator and exegete in service of an urgent Christian task. . . ."

—SOHRAB AHMARI, author of the forthcoming The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos
"Michael Pakaluk has put vast learning and formidable skills as a biblical translator and exegete in service of an urgent Christian task. . . ."

—SOHRAB AHMARI, author of the forthcoming The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos
"A blend of poetic sensibility, spirituality and scholarship that is a genuine surprise and inspiration."

—FATHER DWIGHTLONGENECKER, parish priest and author of The Mystery of the Magi and ImmortalCombat
"A blend of poetic sensibility, spirituality and scholarship that is a genuine surprise and inspiration."

—FATHER DWIGHTLONGENECKER, parish priest and author of The Mystery of the Magi and ImmortalCombat
"An interpretive triumph!"

—C. C. PECKNOLD, associate professor of systematic theology, the Catholic University of America
"An interpretive triumph!"

—C. C. PECKNOLD, associate professor of systematic theology, the Catholic University of America
"Mary’s Voice in the Gospel according to John is boldly beautiful, deeply literate, and astonishingly fresh."

—BRAD MINER, senior editor, The Catholic Thing
"Mary’s Voice in the Gospel according to John is boldly beautiful, deeply literate, and astonishingly fresh."

—BRAD MINER, senior editor, The Catholic Thing