Download or read book The Five Books of Moses written by Robert Alter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant biblical scholar offers a masterly new translation of the Hebrew Bible that gives readers the definitive editions of the Pentateuch. Alter's translation is combined with probing commentary that illuminates the text in a lyrical, lucid English.