Translation
Pseudo-archaic poetry, foreign vocabulary, and webs of references.
Edward Greenstein
Sept. 6 2019 12:01AM
Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.
Barbara Finkelstein
June 27 2019 12:01AM
The Hexapla in the Genizah.
Benjamin Kantor
March 27 2019 12:01AM
Lost in translation.
March 26 2019 12:01AM
Isaiah’s puns.
Robert Alter
March 14 2019 12:01AM
Robert Alter himself conspicuously does not call his own version Jewish in any way. Can we?
Feb. 18 2019 12:01AM
Finished after decades of labor, this one-man English translation is a stupendous achievement. How does it hold up against the masterpieces (and follies) that have come before?
Feb. 4 2019 12:01AM
“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”
Jan. 22 2019 12:01AM
Ancient Israelite authors “totally eclipsed their neighbors.”
Robert Alter
Dec. 20 2018 12:01AM
But who wrote the Zohar?
Eitan Fishbane
Oct. 9 2018 12:01AM
With some rabbinic assistance.
Simone Somekh
Oct. 9 2018 12:01AM
A theory based on a mistranslation.
Bible History Daily
Aug. 17 2018 12:01AM
And what it’s like to translate it into English.
Robert Alter
Aug. 16 2018 12:01AM
Depth vs. breadth.
Jessica Cohen
June 14 2018 12:01AM
