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Google News: Scripture Passages
[America Magazine (subscription)] - In Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (Princeton University Press), Robert Alter, who has taught Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley since and has for many years been a pioneer in the
The Good Book's Great Prose Lessons
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[Wall Street Journal] - By ROBERT ALTER At first blush, the idea that a writer in the 21st century might learn something about English style from the King James Version of the Bible would seem like a nonstarter. The KJV turns 400 this year, and we have long since abandoned
Google News: 400 years of the King James Bible
[Virtue Online] - The liveliest essay in the volume is Robert Alter's "The glories and the glitches of the King James Bible", in which he matches wits with the KJB translators. As the editor-translator of The Five Books of Moses (2004) and The Book of Psalms (2007)
Google News: Counter-Revelations
[The Jewish Week] - Robert Alter's ongoing translation of the Hebrew Bible into a new, more accurate and forceful English version is one of the most ambitious literary projects of this or any age. Turning the Bible into Greek, in the second century BCE, required 72 sages
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