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Competition

Spectator competition winners: Bridget Jones’s Bible

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3216, you were invited to retell a well-known biblical story in a secular style that would enhance its appeal to a contemporary audience.

You might have drawn inspiration from ‘A Brief Statement of our Case’, a rendering of the Sermon of the Mount by the writer and critic Dwight Macdonald in the style of the New English Bible using only phrases that appear in that translation.

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