Robert Alter - The Art of Biblical Podcasting Ep. 86
Good Faith Effort
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What's One Word Choice You Wish You Chosen Differently?
One of the great medieval readers of Rashi was Stephen Langdon, who's responsible for introducing the chapter breaks that we're familiar with in the biblical text. He helped force King John to the table for the process of signing the Magna Carta. There are compromises through and through, and there are happy compromises, and then there are painful compromises. I did not want to give the impression that adam is a name, but a definite article before it, the adam, it couldn't possibly be a name. So what did I do? I translated it as the human. Now that's accurate, but it's like something from a side-front side narrative, the Martian step-out
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