In our ASL translation, Jacob, who was hairless and smooth-skinned, has a name sign that can be back-translated literally to English as “smooth arm skin,” whereas his twin, Esau, who was notoriously ...
Last spring, the National Council of Churches commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to lead a review and update of the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible. The new NRSV ...
The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew ...