Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is delighted to welcome the venerable scholar Willis Barnstone back to the store in celebration of the publication of The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas, newly translated from the Greek and informed by Semitic sources.

Willis Barnstone is an American poet, memoirist, translator, Hispanist, and comparatist. He has translated the Ancient Greek poets and the complete fragments of the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος). He is also a New Testament and Gnostic scholar.