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Robt. Alter's Psalms
As much respect as I have always have for Prof. Alter's scholarship, the value of the KJV goes far beyond its proximity or lack thereof to the original Hebrew. The AV has seeped so deeply into our cultural inheritance it will be impossible to extricate it; and Prof. Alter's Psalms will be a mere footnote or retellng.
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Ehfordii
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October 2, 2007
Illuminating New Translation of Psalms
I find that reverting to the original meaning of the Hebrew text, explaining it's multiple meanings per word or term, then extrapolating that into the possibly more intentional translation is both illuminating and freeing, all at once. To read the text with a purer translation, especially as these words would mean to us now, removes the esoteric ...
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mizk
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October 1, 2007