Translating The Hebrew Bible As The Poetry It Is by Artsjournal1

Few English-speakers are aware that much of ancient Jewish scripture is written in sophisticated verse, full of wordplay and soundplay. Translators have concentrated on the meaning of the words, sacrificing what Robert Alter calls the "music" of the original text. He has done a new translation that concentrates on that "music," and here he explains […]

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