The face of water: a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible

Opening the tome

Okay, the Bible

what about it?

Impossibilities illustrated : the character of the languages and texts. Legos, not rocks : grammar ; Magic words : vocabulary ; You mean the Bible has style? ; Poetry in the Bible : the living word of everything and nothing ; Authorship or rhetoric or voice or something ; Scripture as the big conversation ; Let your mind alone : comedy

Possibilities put forward : mainly, the passages retranslated

An account of the fuller facts : my scholarly resources and methods

as if.