The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary
ISBN-13:
9780393019551
ISBN-10:
0393019551
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Robert Alter
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
1120 pages
Category:
Christian Books & Bibles
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ISBN-13:
9780393019551
ISBN-10:
0393019551
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Robert Alter
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Hardcover
1120 pages
Category:
Christian Books & Bibles
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The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (ISBN-13: 9780393019551 and ISBN-10: 0393019551), written by authors
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The capstone of a brilliant scholar's lifelong work to establish the literary identity of the Bible, in an elegant, slipcased hardcover.
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.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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