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Michael Krasny and guests discuss the challenges of
translating the bible and other sacred texts. Host: Michael Krasny Guests:
Chana Bloch, poet, translator, professor of English and director of the
Creative Writing Program at Mills College
Naomi Sheindel Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and director of the
Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate
Theological Union
Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at UC
Berkeley and author of many books on the Bible and Hebrew
literature, including "The Art of Biblical
Narrative," "The Art of Biblical Poetry" and
his recent translation, "The Five Books of Moses"
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