The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with CommentaryThrough 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. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | ix |
THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH AND THE HERESY OF EXPLANATION | xvi |
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
INTRODUCTION | 299 |
LEVITICUS | 535 |
INTRODUCTION | 675 |
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS | 683 |
INTRODUCTION | 869 |
THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY | 879 |
FOR FURTHER READING | 1061 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aaron Abimelech Abraham ibn Ezra altar Amorite ancient Balaam beast Bible biblical blessing blood bread bring brothers burnt offering camp Canaan Canaanite chapter chieftain clan clause context covenant cubits cultic daughters Deuteronomy divine dwell earth Egypt Egyptian English ephod episode Esau Exodus eyes father firstborn flesh garments GENESIS God's grain offering hand Hebrew verb holy idiom Isaac Israel Israelites Jacob Jacob Milgrom Joseph journeyed Judah king Laban land of Egypt Levites LEVITICUS literally look LORD had charged LORD spoke LORD's male Masoretic Masoretic Text means midst Moab Moses Moses's narrative noun NUMBERS offense offering Pharaoh phrase priest Priestly Rashi reckoning refers sabbath sacred sacrifice sanctuary saying seed sense servants Shechem shekels silver Sinai slaves sojourner sons speak spoke to Moses story Tabernacle Tent of Meeting term tion translation tribe unclean verse wife wilderness woman word YHWH