id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-110	none	Robert Alter and the Art of Bible Translation	2008	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3191	156	70	In one passage, he characterizes his work as “an experiment in re-presenting the Bible—and, above all, biblical narrative prose—in a language that conveys with some precision the semantic nuances and the lively orchestration of literary effects of the Hebrew and at the same time has stylistic and rhythmic integrity as literary English” (Alter 2004, xvi). Alter has long demonstrated that he is a perceptive reader of the Hebrew text, and his explanatory notes are often illuminating in their discussion of the text’s rhetoric, style, and tone.	cache/expositions-110.pdf	txt/expositions-110.txt