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BLT is not just a sandwich. It’s also a blog. This particular blog is a place to discuss the Bible, other Literature, and its Translation. The conversation may include the history, theory, and practice of translating. And we’re not necessarily after agreement. We’d like to hear whatever you have to say.
We are J. K. Gayle, Suzanne McCarthy, Craig R. Smith, Theophrastus, and Victoria Gaile Laidler.
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Sometimes self-Googling leads to unexpected destinations – I’m delighted to discover your blog, and appreciative of your comments about my book and the interactive “New Colossus.” Credit where credit is due: Jonathan Rosen dreamed it up and Joshua Hester designed it.
By the way – I’m raving about the forthcoming Norton KJV – edited by the miraculous Herbert Marks. Please make sure you give it some attention.
Nice to see your coverage of Bellos’s new book – it’s scintillating and accessible.
Esther, thank you for your kind words about our post about your work. We are big fans, as you saw!
We have been tracking the progress of the Norton KJV — see here (and the trackbacks) or see here. Unfortunately, Norton seems to have delayed its release a bit, and according to Amazon, its release is set for the Ides of March, 2012. Looking forward to its official release.
thank you for providing a wonderful and exciting new (for me) site…i look forward to reading more…
Likewise stumbled on this site since Naymz notified me of the citation. Thank you. My journey has led me through various belief systems and your work is challenging in the best sense.
We are setting up a guest blog around the themes Freedom, Community and Equality; touch base if you ever find yourselves wanting to elaborate to a different type of community
Phyl,
Thanks for reading!
Louisa,
Please thank Naymz for us. Please know that you have challenged us (in the best sense) too: we actually quoted you and linked to one of your Huffington Post pieces here. Please send us the link to your guest blog once you set it up. We’d love to interact with you around some of your announced themes.
Cool graphic of Gen 1.1 in Hebrew and Greek… is that from a Bible that is available somewhere?
Abram K-J,
Thanks for noticing. We really hope that all of the images in the blog banner are from non-copyrighted sources if now freely shared and found on the Internet. A few bloggers and webmasters have used the one of the diglot Hebrew/Greek of Genesis 1:1, but I can’t remember where we first found it and am less sure now of its exact first origin. That uncertainty about who created the image seems somewhat fitting for the subject of the verse, doesn’t it?
Indeed!
I do not know the origin of the image in the banner, but I would like to commend to you Emmanuel Tov’s The Parallel Aligned Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Texts of Jewish Scripture. To the best of my knowledge, this work has only been made available electronically. The search functions in Logos give a powerful concordance for accessing this work in many different ways.
Hi, Theophrastus,
(With apologies to you if you use Logos) I am an avid BibleWorks user–rarely a day goes by that I don’t have it in front of me. It’s got the Tov resource, too, and it’s amazing. It’s been a great help to me.
Something in print like that (which that graphic got me salivating about) would be awesome. Of course, an interlinear Hebrew-Greek OT is a challenge, since the LXX doesn’t always seem to be working from the same Vorlage that gave rise to the MT… but it would still be cool!
Hello,
Is there a way to reach J.K. Gayle through e-mail. Her blog has now become private so I can’t read the posts.
Hi JazzFest,
Thanks for asking to read the blog; I’ve just made it public again. You can always reach me by email at jkgayle at g mail dot com.
Perfect! Thank you.
Hello,
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Mary,
Thank you for emailing me the badge privately. As you know, we did post it with this announcement. (My apologies that your comment here somehow got pulled automatically by the spam checker). I’ve updated the BLT announcement post to note the processes by which you and your colleagues at theologydegreesonline.com determined which sites to include in your list of 100). We thank you again!
Best,
J. K. Gayle