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The Book of Psalms: A Conversation

Robert Alter, Jonathan Kirsch
In conversation with David L. Ulin
September 17, 2007

Robert Alter’s translation of The Five Books of Moses was hailed as a “godsend” by poet Seamus Heaney. He discusses with Kirsch, also a Biblical scholar, his new translation of the timeless Book of Psalms.

Image: David och Saul (1878), by Ernst Josephson
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