The Christian Century

Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

‘The Hebrew Bible’ and ‘The Art of Bible Translation’ Review: An Ear for Scripture

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...
Business Insider

Check out the Codex Sassoon. It's the oldest, most complete Hebrew bible, and it's set to be sold by Sotheby's for $30 to $50 million.

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Reading Eagle

Letter: Commentary on death penalty is wrong about Hebrew Bible

“Death penalty in keeping with principles of the Bible” (Reading Eagle, June 4), which asserts that the Hebrew Bible generally supports capital punishment, brings to mind comedian Lewis Black’s advice ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Robert Alter completes his monumental translation of the Hebrew Bible

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 ...