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Book: Pilate’s Wife

Byjevlir November 1, 2007

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 a historical character when almost nothing is known about that character. It doesn’t really matter…

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Bible | Bible Related Short Stories | Fantasy | Fantasy Short Stories | Lectionary | Short Stories

The New Judge

Byjevlir October 19, 2007

[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 related scripture passage at the end. Besides the general fun of setting myself the assignment…

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Bible | Books | Historical Fiction

Book: Unashamed

Byjevlir September 16, 2007

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 a good story is very difficult. On the one hand you can stick closely to…

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Bible | Blog Carnivals | Writing Blogs

Writing Lessons from the Bible

Byjevlir July 4, 2007

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 good post from an interesting blog. From Savvy Writer: Top Three Writing Lessons from the…

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Bible | Poetry | Translation

Psalm 103 as Blank Verse

Byjevlir December 12, 2006

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 to present the message in blank verse, which provides some meter. I’m still sticking fairly…

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Apocrypha | Bible | Bible Related Short Stories | Short Stories | Translation

Susanna: A Transformation

Byjevlir July 20, 2006

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 this short story into a modern form. I allow myself to alter the order of…

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Bible | Poetry | Translation

Psalm 46 as an Italian Sonnet

Byjevlir May 21, 2006

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 forms. I’m safe with God my strength, my shield, my friend. In danger he is…

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