A dazzling reconsideration of the original languages and texts of the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testaments, from the acclaimed scholar and translator of Classical literature ("The best translation of the Aeneid, certainly the best of our time" -Ursula Le Guin; "The first translation since Dryden that can be read as a great English poem in itself" -Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books) and author of Paul Among the People ("Astonishing .
A dazzling reconsideration of the original languages and texts of the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testaments, from the acclaimed scholar and translator of Classical literature ("The best translation of the Aeneid, certainly the best of our time" -Ursula Le Guin; "The first translation since Dryden that can be read as a great English poem in itself" -Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books) and author of Paul Among the People ("Astonishing .