John Barton was Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1991 to 2014. He is co-editor of The Oxford Bible Commentary, and his previous book A History of the Bible won the Duff Cooper Prize for nonfiction. A priest in the Church of England, Barton lives in Abingdon, UK.
"A thorough mapping of the translator's terrain...erudite and
even-tempered."
--Washington Free Beacon
"The Word fully displays John Barton's great gift for explaining
complicated things lucidly and judiciously. He addresses the
challenges facing all Bible translators, showing that every
translation must be judged by the purposes for which it is framed
and the community it addresses, persuasively demonstrating why
there can never be one definitive translation of the Bible."
--Robert Alter, award-winning translator of the Hebrew Bible
"[Barton] has a good eye for the sort of detail that carries
readers with him into what might be unfamiliar territory....The joy
of The Word isn't reaching its final conclusion, but the unexpected
journey itself, told so well that it will engage those who have
never set foot in churches as readily as the faithful in the
pews."--The Sunday Times (UK)
"Barton is one of our leading historians of religion.... [The Word
is] a book bejeweled with insight and erudition and
compassion."--Scotsman
"Sage and measured, scholarly but accessible."--Spectator (UK)
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