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Title:
The face of water : a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible
Author:
Ruden, Sarah, author.
ISBN:
9780307908568
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Edition.
Publication Information:
New York :

Pantheon Books,

[2017]
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 232 pages ; 25 cm.
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.
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