Book Review: Robert Alter's new rendering of the Hebrew Bible is a master class in the art of translation
The difficulties of 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.” Almost all succeeding versions have followed this formulation.
But, as it turns out, the Hebrew word bereshit, traditionally rendered as “in the beginning,” has long been misconstrued. For grammatical reasons, this term has to be understood as a conjunction. Thus, in Robert Alter’s new translation, we read: “When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s...
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