Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent
Precision and beauty have kissed.
Bible translation
Two new (very different) Old Testament translations
Is it man or humanity? Ark or chest?
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?
A feast of scriptural language
Sarah Ruden writes some of the most sumptuous words about Bible words I’ve ever read.
It was the all-time paperback best seller. But Good News had its critics.
The homophile church
Protestants were deeply involved in the gay rights movement—even before the Stonewall Riots.
The Upper Salween Valley is an inhospitable, sparsely populated place. It may seem like an unlikely place for a Christian community to thrive.
New testaments
The Common English Bible boasts that 120 scholars worked on it. The Kingdom New Testament was written by one (brilliant) guy.
I recently reread the biblical translation so familiar from my youth. I found its power and grandeur unabated, though some of the language has an odd ring today.