Five Books of Moses Cl

by Alter,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780393019551
• ISBN10: 0393019551
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. The culmination of this work, Alter's masterly new translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive edition of The Five Books. Alter's majestic translation recovers the mesmerizing effect of these ancient stories'”the profound and haunting enigmas, the ambiguities of motive and image, and the distinctive cadences and lovely precision of the Hebrew text. Other modern translations either recast these features for contemporary clarity, thereby losing the character of the original, or fail to give readers a suitably fluid English as a point of contact. Alter's translation conveys the music and the meaning of the Hebrew text in a lyrical, lucid English. His accompanying commentary illuminates the text with learned insight and reflection on its literary and historical dimensions.

Author Biography

Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Genesis	p. 9
Exodus	p. 299
Leviticus	p. 539
Numbers	p. 675
Deuteronomy	p. 869
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