 The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible - eBookAuthor: Sarah Ruden
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In The Face of Water, acclaimed scholar and translator of Classical literature, Sarah Ruden briliantly and elegantly explains and celebrates the Bible's writings. Singling out the most famous passages, such as the Genesis creation story, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, and the Beatitudes, Ruden reexamines and retranslates from the Hebrew and Greek what has been obscured and misunderstood over time. Making clear that she is not a Biblical scholar, cleric, theologian, or philosopher, Ruden—a Quaker—speaks plainly in this illuminating and inspiring book, wondrously explicating misunderstood passages and revealing the poetry and musicality behind beloved verses. She writes that while the Bible has always mattered profoundly, it is a book that in modern translations often lacks vitality, and she sets out here to make it less a thing of paper and glue and ink and more a live and loving text. The Face of Water gives us an unprecedented, nuanced understanding of what this extraordinary document was for its earliest readers and what it can still be for us today.
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