In Robert Alter\'s brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, eldest and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors.
His insightful, fully informed Commentary illuminates the book in all its dimensions..
It recovers a Genesis with the continuity of theme and motif of a wholly conceived and fully realized book.
Alter\'s Translation honors the meanings and literary strategies of the ancient Hebrew and conveys them in fluent English prose.
In Robert Alter\'s brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, eldest and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors
