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Joseph Conrad, the NEB and a wilderness of words

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 30, 2009
Longtime readers of this blog will know of my affection for the NEB/REB line of translation and the touches of literary excellence one finds therein. One particular phrase, “a wilderness of words”, has captivated me enough to make its way into my blog tagline and spawn several posts exploring the underlying Greek word, mataiologia, that [...]
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Satan, Job and Goethe

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: April 5, 2008
Peter Kirk has commented on a post by Tyler Williams on whether and how “Satan” appears in the book of Job. Peter writes: Formally, in Job chapters 1 and 2 there is no proper name “Satan”, but only several occurrences of a common noun with the definite article, ha-satan meaning “the adversary”. (In Hebrew, as in [...]
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