This is the second in a series of posts about "Genesis 1-11: A New Old Translation for Readers, Scholars, and Translators" (available from the publisher and from Amazon). In my last post, I mentioned ...

How can one find fresh nuance in an over 2,ooo-year-old book? If the book is the Hebrew Bible, by returning to the original Hebrew. After over two decades, the 83-year-old literary critic and ...

Lonely, on the run from the papal henchmen, and chagrined at being out of the public eye, Martin Luther holed up in Wartburg Castle and began translating: “Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde” (Gen.