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

Ruden, Sarah, author.
2017
220.5209 R915f 2017
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Title
The face of water : a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible / Sarah Ruden.
Author
Ruden, Sarah, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780307908568 (hard cover alkaline paper)
0307908569 (hard cover alkaline paper)
9780307908575 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2017]
Language
English
Description
xxxviii, 232 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
220.5209 R915f 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)951172147
(OCoLC)951172147
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Ruden, Sarah. Face of water. First Edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2017
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