The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary

Authors

Roger G. Baker
Robert Alter

Keywords

Mormon studies, book review, Moses, Bible translations

Abstract

There are Bibles aplenty in our world, hundreds if Amazon.com is any guide. In late 2009, Amazon listed over one thousand books on its Bible hit list that have not even been released yet. Over one thousand new books of the roughly 450,000 listed Bible hits portend heavy reading this year for those who try to keep up with things biblical. A beneficial search in this swim through the Amazon of books is for new Bible translations, which now seem plentiful, although there were very few in the years after King James. An almost three-century gap separates the King James Version (KJV) in 1611 from the next major English translations, the English Revised Version (ERV) in 1881-85 and the American Standard Version (ASV) in 1901. And even though new translations were more frequent in the 1900s, it was not until 1988 that another version, the NIV (New International Version, first published in 1973), outsold the Bible of the Reformation and Restoration that Latter-day Saints still use.

Recommended Citation

Baker, Roger G. and Alter, Robert (2010) "The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 49: Iss. 1, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol49/iss1/10