Comments on: Haunting Image and Blogs

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:14:29 +0000

I guess you got axed from Jim West’s blogroll – ah well, maybe now you can live in peace?

By: Scripture Zealot

Scripture Zealot — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:52:39 +0000

I’m honored and thanks for finding that book for me.

I will look into the Barnstone.
Jeff

By: Nathan Stitt

Nathan Stitt — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:44:34 +0000

That last link reminds me I need to pick up Barnstone’s books on translation theory. Sounds like an idea for another post.

By: J. K. Gayle

J. K. Gayle — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:13:04 +0000

Wow, Nathan. Some of this really is haunting (including that dust-jacket image, even if he is a feminist). And if it weren’t for you, some of us wouldn’t have Fox (who translates this great text, as well as if not better than Robert Alter does):

God said:
Let us make humankind, in our image, according to our likeness!
Let them have dominion . . . !
So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God did he create it,
male and female he created them.

(Thanks for your recommendations! In addition to Lattimore and Alter, Barnstone also recommends Reynolds Price and his Three Gospels as a “literary breakthrough.”)

Nathan, lots of us are really glad you’re blogging!