Genesis: Translation and Commentary

Genesis: Translation and Commentary

by Robert Alter
ISBN-10:
039331670X
ISBN-13:
9780393316704
Pub. Date:
09/17/1997
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
ISBN-10:
039331670X
ISBN-13:
9780393316704
Pub. Date:
09/17/1997
Publisher:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Genesis: Translation and Commentary

Genesis: Translation and Commentary

by Robert Alter
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Overview

"[Here is] the Genesis for our generation and beyond."—Robert Fagles

Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy—Joseph's—in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of Abel, Noah and the Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham's binding of Isaac, the covenant of God and Abraham, Isaac's blessing of Jacob in place of Esau, the saga of Joseph and his brothers.

In Robert Alter's brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, eldest and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors. Alter's translation honors the meanings and literary strategies of the ancient Hebrew and conveys them in fluent English prose. It recovers a Genesis with the continuity of theme and motif of a wholly conceived and fully realized book. His insightful, fully informed commentary illuminates the book in all its dimensions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393316704
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 09/17/1997
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 384
Sales rank: 178,555
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, the magnificent capstone to a lifetime of distinguished scholarly work, has won the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation. His immense achievements in scholarship ranging from the eighteenth-century European novel to contemporary Hebrew and American literature earned Alter the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
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