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!-- The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary 0393019551 019551 ALTER Robert Alter -->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 new translation and commentary combine to give contemporary readers this edition of i>The Five Books./i> Alter's translation recovers the mesmerizing effect of these ancient storiesthe profound and haunting enigmas, the ambiguities of motive and image, and the distinctive cadences and lovely precision of the Hebrew text. 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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