The face of water: a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible [First edition] 9780307908568, 9780307908575, 0307908569

A dazzling reconsideration of the original languages and texts of the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testaments, fro

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English Pages xxxviii, 232 pages; 25 cm Year 2017

Table of contents :
Opening the tome --
Okay, the Bible --
what about it? --
Impossibilities illustrated : the character of the languages and texts. Legos, not rocks : grammar
Magic words : vocabulary
You mean the Bible has style?
Poetry in the Bible : the living word of everything and nothing
Authorship or rhetoric or voice or something
Scripture as the big conversation
Let your mind alone : comedy --
Possibilities put forward : mainly, the passages retranslated --
An account of the fuller facts : my scholarly resources and methods --
as if.

The face of water: a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible [First edition]
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