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Alter on the psalter
Posted by: Ros on: September 21, 2007
Listen to Robert Alter being interviewed about his new translation of the psalms here. He explains his choice to avoid the word ‘soul’ in his versions. This gives a strikingly different translation of Ps 23. Where we are used to ‘he restores my soul’, Alter has ‘My life he brings back’. In several places, such [...]
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