Still Broken: Enoch's Vision

What I read

Reading the non-canonical material alongside this shows how wide the shared vocabulary of the period really was. Looking only at what was eventually collected hides that width entirely.（コロサイ人への手紙 1:21-22）

Following the context

How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.（コロサイ人への手紙 3:21-23）

Before we start

Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.

4וְנָמַ֤סּוּ הֶֽהָרִים֙ תַּחְתָּ֔יו וְהָעֲמָקִ֖ים יִתְבַּקָּ֑עוּ כַּדֹּונַג֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָאֵ֔שׁ כְּמַ֖יִם מֻגָּרִ֥ים בְּמֹורָֽד׃

ミカ書 1:4（レニングラード写本（ヘブライ語））

Finally, back to the text. No amount of commentary competes with the texture of the sentences themselves. Read it out loud once before you read anything else about it.

• Moving back and forth between an ordinary week and an ancient text.
• I stopped here in the middle of a read-through, and wrote from the stopping.

This is where I stopped. I could not go forward, so I stayed with the same few lines for a long time. I have come to think the staying was the point.

Following the context

Finally, back to the text. No amount of commentary competes with the texture of the sentences themselves. Read it out loud once before you read anything else about it.