Jay Kelly, or Why I Skipped the Sergio Leone Award When White’s Not Right Audio By Carbonatix In her engrossing new book, classicist Sarah Ruden puts the Hebrew and Greek texts under the microscope.

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...