Friday, May 15, 2026

Robert Alter on Isaiah 61:8

  

robbery and vice. The Masoretic Text reads for the second noun beʿolah, “in burnt offering,” but this should be revocalized as beʿawlah. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:828)