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The Organ and the Tramp

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Henry Neufeld

He was dressed in ragged clothing, more patches than original cloth.  His face was covered with the stubble of several days without shaving.  He looked like he should be cold but he wasn’t shivering.  In fact, he looked peaceful. Tom … Continue reading →

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Book: Pilate’s Wife

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

This book is well out of the norm for my reading, but the topic caught my attention, as well as the dearth of information with which the author had to work. It is hard to write a good novel about … Continue reading →

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The New Judge

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

[Note: This is one of my attempts to tell either a different part of a Bible story, to tell the story from a different perspective, or to get a similar point across in a different way. I will quote the … Continue reading →

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Book: Unashamed

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

My wife handed me this book because she has been trying to get me to read one of [tag]Francine Rivers[/tag]‘ stories about various Bible characters. I’m generally a bit slow to pick up this sort of book because production of … Continue reading →

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Writing Lessons from the Bible

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Henry Neufeld

I located this post through preparations for the Christian Carnival #179. Due to the time frame requirements on posts I couldn’t include it in the carnival, but I wanted to call attention to it in any case, as it’s a … Continue reading →

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Psalm 103 as Blank Verse

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Henry Neufeld

OK, here’s another try at transforming a Psalm, in this case, by putting it into blank verse. There are some wonderful parallelisms in Psalm 103, but a great deal of that impact is lost on English readers. Here I try … Continue reading →

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Susanna: A Transformation

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Henry Neufeld

For a literal translation of Daniel 13, “Susanna” see USCCB – NAB – Daniel 13. This is not a translation or even a paraphrase. One might even call it a “transformation.” What I am attempting to do is to rewrite … Continue reading →

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Psalm 46 as an Italian Sonnet

Posted on May 21, 2006 by Henry Neufeld

This is the result of my having fun with my morning devotions and then mixing it with thinking about translation theory. Anyone up to produce Psalm 46 in another poetic form? I’m particularly interested in playing with translating into fixed … Continue reading →

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