Hi Peter,If anyone is confusing them, it is Bill, for he wrote of "Alter's slightly quirky translation style". What I said was that Alter's translation was "bad English", and I was referring to Alter, not Fox.
I think you may be confusing Fox's translation, which is quirky, with Alter's, which is not. Alter is a fine literary critic who often amazes me with his power of expression. If there is one thing Alter is well-equipped to do, it is to write. He's a master at the English language.
“When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, ‘Let there be light’. And there was light.”
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