The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Vol. 1) - Hardcover

Fox, Everett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084995228X ISBN 13: 9780849952289

Publisher: W Pub Group, 1996

Synopsis

This monumental new translation of the Hebrew Scriptures reveals the rhythm, nuances and stylistic devices particular to Hebrew. While all other English translations of the Bible attempt to render its language as if it had been written in English, this new translation reveals the full force of the Bible's original rhetoric and poetry.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

ious Bible reader--whether Jewish, Christian, or secular--can afford to ignore this volume."
--Jon D. Levenson, Harvard Divinity School

This translation is a stunning achievement--to read it is to hear the Bible as if for the first time.  While other English translations of the Bible render its language as if it had been written in English, this new translation re-creates the full force of the Bible's original rhetoric and poetry--its rhythms, nuances, and stylistic devices--allowing the English reader to experience the spiritual and aesthetic power of the Bible's own voice while recovering layers of meaning that are missed entirely in conventional translations.

Everett Fox has devoted twenty-five years to this unique approach to Bible translation.  Based on principles developed by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, this new English translation restores the poetics of the Hebrew original--the echoes, allusions, alliterations, and word-plays tha

From the Back Cover:

"A binding religious text, a historical document of the first importance, and a work of great literary imagination." --Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review

"Fox's translation has the rare virtue of making constantly visible in English the Hebraic quality of the original, challenging preconceptions of what the Bible is really like. A bracing protest against the bland modernity of all the recent English versions of the Bible." --Robert Alter, professor of comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley

"No serious Bible reader--whether Jewish, Christian, or secular--can afford to ignore this volume." --Jon D. Levenson, Harvard Divinity School

About this edition

• Publisher: W Pub Group
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 084995228X
• ISBN 13: 9780849952289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1024