The Hebrew Bible, Robert Alter
The Hebrew Bible, Robert Alter
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The Hebrew Bible
A Translation with Commentary

Author: Robert Alter

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 64 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2019


Synopsis

A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry and finely wrought, purposeful prose, Alter renews the Old Testament as a source of literary power and spiritual inspiration. From the family frictions of Genesis and King David's flawed humanity to the serene wisdom of Psalms and Job's incendiary questioning of God's ways, these magnificent works of world literature resonate with a startling immediacy. Featuring Alter's generous commentary, which quietly alerts readers to the literary and historical dimensions of the text, this is the definitive edition of the Hebrew Bible

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kristofer on December 23, 2018

Wow. I don't have enough superlatives to give to this collection. Robert Alter has distilled his 50 years of scholarship into these volumes. They are worth the price for the introduction alone, in which his criticisms of modern translations are especially and exquisitely harsh. He is clearly contemp......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on January 01, 2025

The translation, when it was sticking to a very literal and form-based format (as it purports to in the introduction), deservers is five starts. However, when Alter goes into his flights of fancy related to his biases and hobby-horses, his form-based translation philosophy goes out the window. It's......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 31, 2022

The bible is perhaps the most influential and important book ever printed, and yet the historical translators made many, many subjective and varying choices in meaning. This translation is both easy to read, with fantastic commentary, and beautifully printed. A true-life work achievement by a great......more

Goodreads review by Rex on October 07, 2019

Alter's translation is groundbreaking. It is amazing how translations from the King James version forward change the meaning, prose, and rhythm of the original Hebrew and Greek. Alter's objectivity opens the blinds to the original meaning without the filters of well-intended prior translations. I bou......more

Goodreads review by Brenton on January 01, 2025

Jeepers, that was a long day of reading!......more