The face of water: a translator on beauty and meaning in the Bible

Preface: Opening the tome

Introduction: Okay, the Bible

what about it?

Part one. Impossibilities illustrated: the character of the languages and texts

Legos, not rocks: grammar

Magic words: vocabulary

You mean the Bible has style?

Poetry in the BIble: the living word of everything and nothing

Authorship or rhetoric or voice or something

Scripture as the big conversation

Let your mind alone: comedy

Part two. Possibilities put forward: mainly, the passages retranslated

Part three. An account of the fuller facts: my scholarly resources and methods

as if.