The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with CommentaryW. W. Norton & Company, 17 d’oct. 2008 - 1120 pàgines "A modern classic....Thrilling and constantly illuminating."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World 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. |
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Pàgina xiv
... actually implemented in ancient Israel, the effect of the lengthy legal passages, both cultic and civil or criminal, is to bridge the distance of the epic illud tempus, the time-backwhen, of the narrative and bring the text into the ...
... actually implemented in ancient Israel, the effect of the lengthy legal passages, both cultic and civil or criminal, is to bridge the distance of the epic illud tempus, the time-backwhen, of the narrative and bring the text into the ...
Pàgina xv
... actually before a good many of the Priestly passages they contain were even written, in the place it has been given in the process of redaction, it comes to serve as a grand summary of the themes and story we have read up to this point ...
... actually before a good many of the Priestly passages they contain were even written, in the place it has been given in the process of redaction, it comes to serve as a grand summary of the themes and story we have read up to this point ...
Pàgina xxvii
... (actually in consonance with the otherwise paratactic King James Version): “and she hurried” is compressed into “quickly”; “and she ran again” becomes the participial “hurrying again.” (Moves of this sort, it should be said, push ...
... (actually in consonance with the otherwise paratactic King James Version): “and she hurried” is compressed into “quickly”; “and she ran again” becomes the participial “hurrying again.” (Moves of this sort, it should be said, push ...
Pàgina xl
... actually [wegam] stood up, and, look, your sheaves drew round and bowed to my sheaf” (Genesis 37:7). The language here is surely crafted mimetically to capture the gee-gosh wonderment of this naive adolescent who blithely assumes his ...
... actually [wegam] stood up, and, look, your sheaves drew round and bowed to my sheaf” (Genesis 37:7). The language here is surely crafted mimetically to capture the gee-gosh wonderment of this naive adolescent who blithely assumes his ...
Pàgina 29
... actually means “smith,” an etymology that will be reflected in his linear descendant Tubal-cain, the legendary first metalworker. (“Tubal” also means “smith” in Sumerian and Akkadian.) Eve, upon bringing forth the third human being ...
... actually means “smith,” an etymology that will be reflected in his linear descendant Tubal-cain, the legendary first metalworker. (“Tubal” also means “smith” in Sumerian and Akkadian.) Eve, upon bringing forth the third human being ...
Continguts
ix | |
xlix | |
9 | |
17 | |
33 | |
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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Aaron Abraham according actually altar ancient animal appears beast become beginning biblical blessing blood bring brothers brought called camp chapter charged clan covenant daughters death Deuteronomy divine earth Egypt Egyptian English episode Exodus eyes face fact father fire five follows forward garments genesis give given God’s hand head heart Hebrew hold holy human hundred indication Isaac Israel Israelites Jacob Joseph journeyed keep kind king land language laws literally live look Lord Lord’s means Meeting midst Moses Moses’s mountain narrative noted numbers offense offering perhaps person Pharaoh phrase presence priest refers reflects saying seems sense seven silver slaves sons speak spoke stand stone story suggests Tabernacle Tent term thing tion took towns translation tribe turn unclean verb verse whole wife wilderness woman