The Grammar Of God A Journey Into The Words And Worlds Of The Bible First Edition Aviya Kushner by Aviya Kushner 9780385520829, 0385520824 instant download after payment.

Aviya Kush­n­er grew up in a tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish home & learned at an ear­ly age to read the Bible in the orig­i­nal Hebrew. Her reli­gious edu­ca­tion includ­ed Hebrew lessons, but her par­ents were the great­est influ­ence in read­ing, trans­lat­ing, & draw­ing mean­ing from the text. This book is the sto­ry of her return to read­ing the Bible as an adult in a grad­u­ate Eng­lish course, inter­wo­ven with her fam­i­ly his­to­ry of learn­ing & read­ing the Bible. She quick­ly real­ized that dif­fer­ent tra­di­tions have trans­la­tions affect­ed by source texts, & cul­ture, & how that cul­ture affects the under­stand­ing of man’s rela­tion­ship to God as demon­strat­ed in the translation.

Through­out the book, Kush­n­er cites spe­cif­ic pas­sages in the orig­i­nal Hebrew, & pro­vides sev­er­al com­pet­ing trans­la­tions from both Jew­ish & Chris­t­ian tra­di­tions. For lovers of lan­guage this is a fas­ci­nat­ing & com­pelling demon­stra­tion of how we read the text. Many mod­ern trans­la­tions are based on trans­la­tions of trans­la­tions. The Sep­tu­agint (Greek trans­la­tion) & the Vul­gate (Latin trans­la­tion) are the basis for many cur­rent Eng­lish translations.