An Evangelical Bible Translation

by Kevin Martin

The New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition Bible translation improves upon the excellence of the NRSV in several subtle ways. Every serious Bible reader should check it out. Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2023

A Divine Comedy We Can Feel in the Pulse

by Jason M. Baxter

We need to realize that Dante is constantly code-switching from a classical in-the-head way of speaking to one that is more in-the-blood and in-the-nerves.  Continue Reading »

24 Jan 2023

Verses for the Visitation

by E. J. Hutchinson

Between Christ’s first and second advents, the truths of redemption are always now. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2021

Waning Moon

by Marc Alan Di Martino

A translation of Mario Dell’Arco’s“Luna calante” Pendant around the neck of night:ringed by Taurus, Capricorn,Ursa Major on the risebefore so many fiery eyeslittle by little, whittles to a horn. —Marc Alan Di . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2020

Word for Word

by Paul V. Mankowski

The Hebrew Bible:  A Translation with Commentary by robert alter norton, 3500 pages, $125 In 1582, Catholic scholars in exile at Rheims published an English version of the New Testament prefaced by a lengthy explanation and defence of their rendering, which, they said, accorded with the rule of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2019

State Irreligion

by Marcel Proust

When one is delivered from a duty, one is less free. Continue Reading »

18 Jun 2018

Why We Shouldn’t Change the Lord’s Prayer

by Anthony Esolen

“Lead us not into temptation” is the most accurate English translation of the original Greek phrase in the Lord’s Prayer. Pope Francis can’t find a better rendering.  Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2017

Thus Saith the Lord

by Nathaniel Peters

One Sunday in high school, we went to the Anglo-Catholic parish where my headmaster served as an assistant priest. Catechized by evangelical Episcopalians and Presbyterians, I believed that the Bible was divinely inspired by God. But I had never seen it treated as such in a physical or ritual way. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2017

The Gospel According to
David Bentley

by Paul V. Mankowski

The New Testament: A Translation by david bentley hart yale, 616 pages, $35 David Bentley Hart’s new single-handed translation of the New Testament will strike the fair-minded reader by turns as startling, incisive, audacious, smug, shrewd, and quirky to the point of exasperation: everything, in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2017

Difficult Translation

by Donald Antenen

While technically excellent, Sarah Ruden’s newest translation is a little too literal. Continue Reading »

18 Jul 2017