by William Whitt
The Middle Coast Press
Highland Park, Illinois
Print edition: ISBN 978-1-773-44153-7
Digital edition: ISBN 978-1-773-44154-4
This translation of the mass of Genesis builds on the approach taken inward Whitt's translation of Samuel published inward 2018. The translation is unique inward jettisoning the traditional chapter divisions together with instead organizing the cloth according to the Masoretic parashot. Organizing the text inward this means gets us closer to the ancient writers, together with yields numerous insights into their composition approach.
Two other characteristics that gear upward this translation apart are my (fairly aggressive) adoption of functional (or dynamic) equivalence as a translation style, together with my alternative of Phoenician together with Syrian ivories together with Mesopotamian cylinder seals to illustrate the text. The job of ancient fine art to illustrate the text allows the modern reader to get closer to how the master audience mightiness stimulate got imagined the activity in the text every bit they were reading or hearing it for the kickoff time.
The commentary includes an examine on the composition history of Genesis that views the entire mass every bit the production of the Jerusalem priesthood, which I believe worked on the mass some continuously from the mid- to belatedly 6th century BCE downwards to early on or mid-fourth century BCE. Finally, the translation offers upward a issue of novel readings of historically of import passages, including Gen 3.16, 4.7, together with 15.6.
The mass is too posted every bit a pdf at academia.edu. The compressed version at that spot has lower-res images together with the file size is some 3MB.Typically the website does ask registration together with log-on.
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