Halkin responds on Alter's Bible

MOSAIC MAGAZINE: The Necessary Bad Faith in Reading the Bible as Literature. For those who can’t say “I will obey,” but won’t say “I refuse to obey,” what other choice is there? (Hillel Halkin).

I thank Jon Levenson and Leonard Greenspoon for their kind responses to my essay on Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible. I’ll address their pieces in the reverse order of their appearance in Mosaic.

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I noted Halkins's earlier Mosaic essay and the two responses here. And follow the links from there for more posts on Alter's translation of the Bible.

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