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David Crystal and Derek Davy, Investigating English Style (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 149–150.

Bruce Hollenbach, “Translating Without Offense,” Notes on Translation 119 (1987), pp. 50–54.

John Banker, “How Can We Improve Translations Stylistically?” Notes on Translation 94 (1983), pp. 16–21.

Katharine Barnwell, “Towards Acceptable Translations,” Notes on Translation 95 (1983), pp. 19–26.

See “H|iddushei Halakhot ve-Aggadot,” by Samuel Eliezar Edels (“Maharsha”), in Tractate Megillah (New York: Pardes, 1944), appendix, p. 10, col. 1. See also Adin Steinsaltz’s marginalia to Megillah 25b (p. 109) in his edition of Talmud Bavli (Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, 1983). I am indebted to my father, Rabbi Michael Minkoff, for these references.

Simon, Megillah, pp. 151–154.

See Megillah, ed. Simon, pp. 151–154, in The Babylonian Talmud, ed. Isidore Epstein (London: Soncino Press, 1938).

Richard Elliott Friedman, “Sacred History/Sacred Literature,” in The Creation of Sacred Literature: Composition and Redaction of the Biblical Text, ed. Friedman, Near Eastern Studies 22 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1981), p. 1.

David Daiches, “Translating the Bible,” Commentary (May 1970), p. 63.