Robert Alter: The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary

The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary


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Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. In this landmark work, Alter's masterly translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive edition of The Five Books. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation and the Koret Jewish Book Award for Translation, a Newsweek Top 15 Book, Los Angeles Times Favorite Book, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

In "Someplace Like America", writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life - through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis - the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media - people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary free pdf miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In "Someplace Like America", they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study - begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe - puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.


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Author: Robert Alter
Number of Pages: 1120 pages
Published Date: 28 Oct 2008
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780393333930
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