An Apologetic for More-Than-Meaning-Based Translation?

Here are just a few excerpts from the review that captured my attention:

• "The Face of Water is a book about what is so often lost in our modern translations: 'sound, literary imagery, emotion, and ultimately, thought and experience—flattening out the inspiring expressiveness of the original.'"
• "Aesthetics, she says, seems to be the great factor disregarded by the modern mind."
• "Ruden is asking translators to wrestle with more than meaning. She is making the case for doing the intense and challenging work of digging as deeply as possible into ancient worlds so we can once again feel the Bible, not just know things from it. Again and again she asks, 'What was it like'?”
• "Ruden fully appreciates the very real distance between us and the biblical authors. We must start, she says, with the recognition of the unknowability of ancient people’s words and worlds. Only this acknowledgement will give us the proper mindset for working hard and working smart to somehow bridge the gap."
• "Ruden’s basic understanding is that the Bible is 'authoritative performance literature.' So our job is to seek more than 'bare lexical projections into the year Now.' Our real need is to understand the show."

Here is the link to the full review:

Sarah Ruden’s Rebellion Against Our ‘Just the Facts’ Bibles