The Five Books of Moses

About Dr. Everett Fox

Everett Fox holds the Allen M. Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the translator of The Five Books of Moses: The Schocken Bible, Volume I, the author of studies on biblical narrative and its translation, and co-editor, with Lawrence Rosenwald, of Scripture and Translation, a collection of essays by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. He lives in Massachusetts.


Schwebel was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, and studied under Philip Guston at New York University. His work has been exhibited at the Stephen Rosenberg Gallery in New York, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He moved to Israel in 1963 and now lives in Jerusalem.

Praise

"A binding religious text, a historical document of the first importance, and a work of great literary imagination." --Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review

"Fox's translation has the rare virtue of making constantly visible in English the Hebraic quality of the original, challenging preconceptions of what the Bible is really like. A bracing protest against the bland modernity of all the recent English versions of the Bible." --Robert Alter, professor of comparative literature, University of California, Berkeley

"No serious Bible reader--whether Jewish, Christian, or secular--can afford to ignore this volume." --Jon D. Levenson, Harvard Divinity School