I received my copy of Joel Hoffman’s well-intentioned And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning today (I had ordered it before Amazon started boycotting all Macmillan products) and opened it up to a random page – p. 234 as it turned out, and spotted errors immediately (Hoffman appears to be ignorant of that both Everett Fox and Robert Alter translated Shmeul [the books of Samuel] into English). And no footnotes. Not a good sign. Sigh.
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Theophrastus,
This book sounds like poor scholarship at best.
Why do we hate Macmillan?
-JAK
Amazon and Macmillan are in a huge battle over the price of e-books; Macmillan wants to hike them to at least $15 to avoid competing with hardcover books. Amazon, in response, suspended sales of all Macmillan titles on its site. Talks are going slowly. You can read more here and here
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