Bibliograph

The face of water, a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible, Sarah Ruden

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The face of water, a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible, Sarah Ruden

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-218) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The face of water

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

951172147

Responsibility statement

Sarah Ruden

Sub title

a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible

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

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