Robert Alter, Finally Complete!
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Absolutely! I mentioned it on an older post, but it deserves all the attention it can get.
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Nick Steffen said:
Absolutely! I mentioned it on an older post, but it deserves all the attention it can get.
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I also added a note on a UserVoice suggestion page dedicated to his work. I really hope we can get this into Logos as soon as possible.
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You've got me convinced. [Y]
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
International Standard Version. (2011). (Lk 2:52). Yorba Linda, CA: ISV Foundation.
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Nick Steffen said:
I also added a note on a UserVoice suggestion page dedicated to his work. I really hope we can get this into Logos as soon as possible.
I just threw 3 votes at it.
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Almost available now in paper. Logos?
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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I am very interested in these and the new set coming out this Dec that is all 3 volumes in one set..
I have been trying to research him.. Do any of you know if he is conservative or Liberal? Does he consider the bible the very word of God or just fantasy and great writing?
This one part of an interview below concerned me where he said his translation of this word in 23rd psalm was a more reality-based translation.
Can you give an example of what you mean by “accuracy”?
In the 23rd psalm that begins “The Lord is my shepherd,” the King James translation of the concluding line reads: “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” My translation reads: “I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for very long days.” The word “forever” is an abstraction, referring to God’s house in heaven. My translation, “for very long days,” refers to the Temple in Jerusalem. The Hebrew is more accurate, reality-based, easily understood and thus more relevant to contemporary readers and worshipers.
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Alter was a Jewish professor in both English literature and Hebrew Bible at UCBerkeley. Given his religious background, I don't think you'll find any Evangelicalish statements about inerrancy or whatnot.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Ok thank you guys.. That is exactly what I needed to know.
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This book and Alter highlight in the Times today.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Sign me up!
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Bump! Please go register your desire for Robert Alter's works at UserVoice!
https://suggestbooks.uservoice.com/forums/308269-book-suggestions/suggestions/13439313-robert-alter-all-of-his-works"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Good review! Would be great in Logos...
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/hebrew-bible-robert-alter/
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Thanks for that. Have voted (again?) at UserVoice.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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BTW, WSJ Friday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hebrew-bible-and-the-art-of-bible-translation-review-otherworldly-words-11552659274
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"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Please make this a priority. Would be a great addition to Logos.
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It's additions like Alter that increase Logos' academic credibility (and "referrability") for those of us who spend more time with academics than pastors.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Ben said:
It's additions like Alter that increase Logos' academic credibility (and "referrability") for those of us who spend more time with academics than pastors.
People who bought our house were associated with a tenured Ph. D. in English. We all went out socially a few times. We were discussing the Bible. He was not a Christian, but had read Alter, whom he recommended to me.
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i can't wait any longer.....!!!! will i have to buy it on kindle instead?
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Please see my new post with plea for votes on all of Alter's books which I've now added individually on UserVoice. Follow the links from there to go vote for all of them.
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There seems to be little movement on Alter here, but there's a half-off plus coupon sale at Amazon, which brings the price down to about $40.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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I'm now reading Alter's book on translating (Kindle), plus his narratives volume. Really quite fascinating.
And after all the forum years of panning the KJV. Highlights Logos as a slice and dice machine.
"... and I am particularly suspicious of the value of elaborate taxonomies and skeptical as to whether our understanding of narrative is really advanced by the deployment of bristling neologisms like analepsis, intradiegetic, actantial." (from his Narrative volume)
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Alter's "Art" books are now on Logos! A great addition. I'm hopping they will become Logos editions at some point. Page numbering is important for my uses.
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David McClister said:
Alter's "Art" books are now on Logos! A great addition. I'm hopping they will become Logos editions at some point. Page numbering is important for my uses.
It's very frustrating to me that after all my advocating for these to come to Logos, they are not available to those of us in Canada. Big [:(]!
Oddly, The Art of Bible Translation (still in pre-pub) is available in Canada (at least it's letting me pre-order it, which might be a false sense of security; maybe I'll be denied it in the end when it is released).
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Oh I just saw this... and ordered it.
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There seems to be another book by Alter on pre-pub:
https://www.logos.com/product/338672/nabokov-and-the-real-world-between-appreciation-and-defense
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