When Aviya Kushner enrolled in Marilynne Robinson's Old Testament course at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she didn't recognize the text her teacher and classmates were familiar with. She wasn't new to the stories they were studying; she had read them many times since she was a young child. But Kushner had read them in Hebrew as part of her Orthodox Jewish schooling, and the translations her Christian classmates knew well sounded nothing like the Hebrew to Kushner. With Robinson's encouragement, Kushner set out to collect a wide variety of English translations, then compare them with each other and with the Hebrew Bible.
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