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The face of water : a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible
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:
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.
Document ID:
SD_ILS:2267138
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