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John Barton
John Barton was Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford from 1991 to 2014. He is co-editor of The Oxford Bible Commentary, and his previous book A History of the Bible won the Duff Cooper Prize for nonfiction. A priest in the Church of England, Barton lives in Abingdon, UK.
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The Word
From a distinguished Oxford scholar and the author of A History of the Bible, an examination of how biblical translation works and why it matters …