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“It’s at once elegant and extremely sensitive to the Hebrew original. Alter has thought deeply about the literary power of the text he is translating and he’s highly alert to the precise implications of the Biblical Hebrew.” Read more...
The best books on Adam and Eve
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Our most recommended books
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The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding) -
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
by David Hume -
Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
by Ibn Battutah (edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith) -
Paradise Lost
by John Milton -
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
by Baruch Spinoza & Samuel Shirley (translator)