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The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary Book

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. In this landmark work, Alter's masterly translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive edition of The Five Books. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation and the Koret Jewish Book Award for Translation, a Newsweek Top 15 Book, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.Read More

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  • ASDA

    Equips us to read the Old Testament. This book 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.

  • Blackwell

    The brilliant biblical scholar offers a masterly new translation of the Hebrew Bible that gives readers the definitive editions of the Pentateuch. Alter's translation is combined with probing commentary that illuminates the text in a lyrical...

  • BookDepository

    The Five Books of Moses : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393333930 : 0393333930 : 28 Oct 2008 : "A modern classic....Thrilling and constantly illuminating.""-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World"

  • 0393333930
  • 9780393333930
  • R Alter
  • 28 October 2008
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 1120
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