Those who like paraphrases like the New Living "Translation"
you will probably dislike this review. I haven't purchased Alter's
translation yet, I expect when I buy my next batch of statistics
textbooks in February from Amazon I'll add a copy to my list then.
It seems to me, from what I've read about Alter's work, it is a welcome
counter-balance to the excesses of paraphrases posing as translations
which are striving for originality and novelty in English. In the words
of the reviewer:-
>There is nothing worse than a religious translation that reaches down to
>its intended audience with modernisms and colloquialisms; for one thing,
>modernisms and colloquialisms date so quickly.
I heartily agree.
Bill Rea, IT Services, Canterbury University \_
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[b-hebrew] Review Alter's translation,
Bill Rea, 01/04/2005