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 i
... ancient Hebrew, Alter discovers a profound music. He can raise an already beloved text to new heights of resonance and reality. . . . Alter's combination of a freshly minted text and splendidly concise commentaries makes the biblical ...
... ancient Hebrew, Alter discovers a profound music. He can raise an already beloved text to new heights of resonance and reality. . . . Alter's combination of a freshly minted text and splendidly concise commentaries makes the biblical ...
Pàgina xii
... ancient literature have the quirkiness and unpredictability of individual character and the frictions and tensions of family life—sibling rivalry, the jealousy of co-wives, the extravagance of parental favoritism—been registered with ...
... ancient literature have the quirkiness and unpredictability of individual character and the frictions and tensions of family life—sibling rivalry, the jealousy of co-wives, the extravagance of parental favoritism—been registered with ...
Pàgina xiii
... ancient kingdoms, and the forging of the nation through a spectacular chain of divine interventions that culminates in the spectacle of the revelation on the mountain of God's imperatives to Israel. After the Sinai epiphany, Exodus ...
... ancient kingdoms, and the forging of the nation through a spectacular chain of divine interventions that culminates in the spectacle of the revelation on the mountain of God's imperatives to Israel. After the Sinai epiphany, Exodus ...
Pàgina xiv
... ancient writers conceived three major constituents of national identity and cohesion. The first, and the one that we can most readily understand, is the trajectory of the collective and of its principal figures through the medium of ...
... ancient writers conceived three major constituents of national identity and cohesion. The first, and the one that we can most readily understand, is the trajectory of the collective and of its principal figures through the medium of ...
Pàgina xvii
... ancient Hebrew has become considerably more nuanced and precise than it once was, thanks to comparative Semitic philology aided by archeology, and also thanks to the careful reanalysis of the formal structures—syntax, grammar ...
... ancient Hebrew has become considerably more nuanced and precise than it once was, thanks to comparative Semitic philology aided by archeology, and also thanks to the careful reanalysis of the formal structures—syntax, grammar ...
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