Publishers Weekly on And God Said
Author Hoffman, a linguist and a translator, uses his knowledge and his skills to correct some of the common errors in translating the language of the Bible from Hebrew into English. His initial three...
View ArticleDr. Walter Brueggemann on And God Said
It is of course a truism that “every translation is an interpretation.” Joel Hoffman has taken his cue from that truism to go deeper into the wonder, difficulty, and frequent mistakes of modern...
View ArticleThe Very Rev. James Kowalski on And God Said
And God Said dares to face the problem that centuries of mistranslation have made the Bible – including our most familiar understandings – less available to us. Hoffman asserts the underlying sameness...
View ArticleFirst Amazon Review
From Amazon.com: “Joel Hoffman’s book, And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning, is just invaluable for in-depth study of the Bible…. Using linguistics (in a remarkably clear...
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