Heard an interview with this guy on NPR about a year ago [1]. He made some comment about how he tried to make it more poetic than most translations. Then proce

Heard an interview with this guy on NPR about a year ago [1]. He made some comment about how he tried to make it more poetic than most translations. Then proceeded to give several examples where his translation sounded distinctly more awkward to me than the text he was replacing. For example, replacing "anoint" with "moisten" and "soul" with "life breath". [1] https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/684120470/after-24-years-scholar-completes-3-000-page-translation-of-the-hebrew-bible https://www.npr.org/2019/01/14/684120470/after-24-years-scho...