I doing a presentation on contemporary remakes of older works, for example, as part of the project, I'm rewriting a psalm. I need some research to back this idea and amm having trouble. Anyone?

The movie Clueless is a modernization of Jane Austen's Emma. Certainly the Bible has been rewritten for the 'modern' audience many times.

pam

This website might help:

[www.ewtn.com]


Les

I don't understand what sort of 'research' you need, or what kind of 'rewriting' you are doing.

If by rewriting you mean paraphrasing, or parodying, or translating into some dialect you are familiar with, what more do you need to enable you to do that? Have you selected the psalm?

If you mean making a fresh translation from the original language in which the psalm was written, that will require considerable scholarship. If you don't already have that, I'd say you are tackling too ambitious a rewriting task.

An alternative to a psalm is the book of Amos. 8:4-7 is a good bit.

You who say "When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn?"

You could have a good rant with this passage.