
Robert Alter - The Art of Biblical Podcasting Ep. 86
Good Faith Effort
I Hope for Justice and Look a Blight
I love the idea that spirituality as such is inseparable from the body, I suppose. So how would you render things that are more difficult to translate like that puns on a Madapia's word play? Okay. Let me take an example from Isaiah because Isaiah was a master poet. It was the first Isaiah, not all the others whose poetry was stuck to his book. He introduced a positive term and then put next to it a negative term, which is its antithesis but the two words sound the like. The Gnostics were wrong in how they read the Bible. Yeah. And I think that's such a good example of that. You can almost see in the texture of
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