Robert Alter FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES Translation w/ Commentary 1st/1st in Slipcase
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| Management number | 13067128 | Release Date | 2025/09/20 | List Price | $23.40 | Model Number | 13067128 | ||
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First edition
On the cover…
"A MASTERPIECE.
Robert Alter's translation of The Five Books of Moses is the crown of this
distinguished scholar's career. There is a cadenced gravity in Alter's English that reanimates the King James Version in a vibrant, current voice. This superb book is a cause for celebration, an act of faith that merits our study, our devotion, and our thanks."
-ROBERT FAGLES, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature,
Princeton University, and translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey
"Robert "Robert Alter's The Five Books of Moses is a work of heroic scholarship, an achievement that will win the admiration of all who understand the problems of translating an ancient into a modern language. It is not easy to think of comparable literary achievements. This work crowns a uniquely distinguished career."
-FRANK KERMODE, author of The Age of Shakespeare
"A beautiful translation-forceful, lucid, and haunted by the rhythms of the original. The introduc
| Category | Books > Nonfiction Books > Religion & Spirituality Books |
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| Brand | Norton |
| Condition | Like new |
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