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Robert Alter: The Hebrew Bible
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:32:22
Publish Date: 2019-01-23 10:56:47
Description:

In this week’s books podcast, Sam's guest is Robert Alter - who has just published the fruits of decades of labour in the form of his complete new translation of the Hebrew Bible into English. Acclaimed for his Bible translations by Seamus Heaney, John Updike and Peter Ackroyd, Prof Alter explains how Biblical Hebrew really works, what can and cannot be preserved in translation - and why, as he sees it, nearly every modern translation of the Bible gets it catastrophically wrong.

Presented by Sam Leith, the Spectator's Literary Editor.
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