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Re-Translating the Bible
17 November 2004
In the beginning...the Bible sounded different. UC Berkeley professor, Robert Alter, discusses his major new translation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, which he intends to restore the syntax, style, meaning and numerous deleted "ands" of the original Hebrew that has been lost or mangled in standard translations.

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