Saturday, April 25, 2026

Robert Alter on Psalm 111:2

  

who desire them. The Masoretic Text reads “their desires.” The translation revocalizes the word as ḥafeitseyhem, “those who desire them.” (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 3:266)

 

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