Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...
The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...
When many Jews were more comfortable reading Greek than Hebrew, just over 2,000 years ago, they produced a Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint. It has been the object of study and interest ...
Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...
IN 1997 Gary Paul Morson, an American professor of Slavic literature, reflected on the work of Constance Garnett, the translator who introduced Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky to the English-speaking ...