Title The face of water : a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible / Sarah Ruden

Publisher	New York : Pantheon Books, 2017
	Š2017

Copies

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks	220.52 .R832f	AVAILABLE
Maine State Lib. Stacks	OFFSITE 220.5 R915f 2017	AVAILABLE

Edition	First edition
Phys Descr	xxxviii, 232 pages ; 25 cm
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index
Contents	Preface: Opening the tome -- Introduction: Okay, the Bible--what about it? -- Part one. 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 -- Part two. Possibilities put forward: mainly, the passages retranslated -- Part three. An account of the fuller facts: my scholarly resources and methods--as if
Subject	Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
	Bible -- Translating
	Bible. English -- Versions -- Authorized
Other Form	Online version: Ruden, Sarah, author. Face of water. First Edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2017 9780307908575 (DLC) 2016025767
OCLC #	951172147
ISBN #	9780307908568
	0307908569