PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Robert Alter is a widely acclaimed literary scholar. He is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Also available: Genesis (ISBN 978 0 393 31670 4), The David Story (ISBN 978 0 393 32077 0) and The Five Books of Moses (ISBN 978 0 393 01955 1).
You think you know these texts ... until you read Alter, who reignites their beauty in bracing and unexpected ways. -- Malcolm Jones - Newsweek Alter is musically and poetically sensitive... [He] takes us back to the essence of the meaning. -- James Wood - The New Yorker A considerable achievement... Alter holds me to his darkly economical texts. -- Harold Bloom - New York Review of Books Every reader of this translation will be led towards fresh thoughts and will discover favorites that inspire the imagination in new, rich ways. -- Walter Brueggemann - Christian Century In his compelling and swiftly moving translations, Alter has thrust the reader back to the place where the monotheistic religions were born out of even more ancient beginnings. -- Jewish Book World The achievement of this new translation is to present the Book of Psalms as a wonder of ancient literature. -- The Tablet
