The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...
Introduction. Approaching the five books -- The Bible in English and the heresy of explanation -- On translating the names of God -- About the commentary -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Genesis -- ...
Robert Alter, who was born in New York City in 1935, has had a distinguished career as a translator and literary critic. He is the author of the 1981 The Art of Biblical Narrative and in 1987 with ...
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